The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Lixin Wang alan.1.wang@nokia-sbell.com Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:06:55 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] i2c: core: decrease reference count of device node in i2c_unregister_device
Reference count of device node was increased in of_i2c_register_device, but without decreasing it in i2c_unregister_device. Then the added device node will never be released. Fix this by adding the of_node_put.
Signed-off-by: Lixin Wang alan.1.wang@nokia-sbell.com Tested-by: Wolfram Sang wsa@the-dreams.de Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang wsa@the-dreams.de Cc: stable@kernel.org
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c index 706164b4c5be..f7829a74140c 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c @@ -821,8 +821,12 @@ void i2c_unregister_device(struct i2c_client *client) { if (!client) return; - if (client->dev.of_node) + + if (client->dev.of_node) { of_node_clear_flag(client->dev.of_node, OF_POPULATED); + of_node_put(client->dev.of_node); + } + if (ACPI_COMPANION(&client->dev)) acpi_device_clear_enumerated(ACPI_COMPANION(&client->dev)); device_unregister(&client->dev);