This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

gpio: mockup: dynamically allocate memory for chip name

to the 4.9-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: gpio-mockup-dynamically-allocate-memory-for-chip-name.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Nov 28 10:49:28 CET 2017

From: Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski@baylibre.com Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 12:28:19 +0100 Subject: gpio: mockup: dynamically allocate memory for chip name

From: Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski@baylibre.com

[ Upstream commit ad6d8004fa29a8958381b60215e32d1e903b0492 ]

Currently the chip name buffer is allocated on the stack and the address of the buffer is passed to the gpio framework. It's invalid after probe() returns, so the sysfs label attribute displays garbage.

Use devm_kasprintf() for each string instead.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static int mockup_gpio_probe(struct plat int i; int base; int ngpio; - char chip_name[sizeof(GPIO_NAME) + 3]; + char *chip_name;

if (gpio_mockup_params_nr < 2) return -EINVAL; @@ -146,8 +146,12 @@ static int mockup_gpio_probe(struct plat ngpio = gpio_mockup_ranges[i * 2 + 1] - base;

if (ngpio >= 0) { - sprintf(chip_name, "%s-%c", GPIO_NAME, - pins_name_start + i); + chip_name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, + "%s-%c", GPIO_NAME, + pins_name_start + i); + if (!chip_name) + return -ENOMEM; + ret = mockup_gpio_add(dev, &cntr[i], chip_name, base, ngpio); } else {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bgolaszewski@baylibre.com are

queue-4.9/gpio-mockup-dynamically-allocate-memory-for-chip-name.patch