This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: OMAP2+: Release device node after it is no longer needed.
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: arm-omap2-release-device-node-after-it-is-no-longer-needed.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:38:50 CET 2017
From: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 07:02:11 -0800 Subject: ARM: OMAP2+: Release device node after it is no longer needed.
From: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net
[ Upstream commit b92675d998a9fa37fe9e0e35053a95b4a23c158b ]
The device node returned by of_find_node_by_name() needs to be released after it is no longer needed to avoid a device node leak.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_3xxx_data.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_3xxx_data.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_3xxx_data.c @@ -3967,15 +3967,20 @@ int __init omap3xxx_hwmod_init(void)
if (h_sham && omap3xxx_hwmod_is_hs_ip_block_usable(bus, "sham")) { r = omap_hwmod_register_links(h_sham); - if (r < 0) + if (r < 0) { + of_node_put(bus); return r; + } }
if (h_aes && omap3xxx_hwmod_is_hs_ip_block_usable(bus, "aes")) { r = omap_hwmod_register_links(h_aes); - if (r < 0) + if (r < 0) { + of_node_put(bus); return r; + } } + of_node_put(bus);
/* * Register hwmod links specific to certain ES levels of a
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linux@roeck-us.net are
queue-4.4/arm-omap2-release-device-node-after-it-is-no-longer-needed.patch queue-4.4/arm-omap2-fix-device-node-reference-counts.patch