3.13.11-ckt17 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]> commit 0f303db08df0df9bd0966443ad6001e63960af16 upstream. Fix memory leak in the gpio sysfs interface due to failure to drop reference to device returned by class_find_device when creating a link. Fixes: a4177ee7f1a8 ("gpiolib: allow exported GPIO nodes to be named using sysfs links") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]> [ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: applied to drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c ] Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index e829dc4..1dda7e6 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -893,6 +893,7 @@ int gpiod_export_link(struct device *dev, const char *name, if (tdev != NULL) { status = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &tdev->kobj, name); + put_device(tdev); } else { status = -ENODEV; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
