Do not assing the Linux device to struct fb_info.dev. The call to register_framebuffer() initializes the field to the fbdev device. Drivers should not override its value.

Fixes a bug where the driver incorrectly decreases the hardware device's reference counter and leaks the fbdev device.

v2: * add Fixes tag (Dan)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de Fixes: 88017bda96a5 ("ep93xx video driver") Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas javierm@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.32+ --- drivers/video/fbdev/ep93xx-fb.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/ep93xx-fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/ep93xx-fb.c index f6cd200fe50ff..37309f9dbe828 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/ep93xx-fb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/ep93xx-fb.c @@ -474,7 +474,6 @@ static int ep93xxfb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) if (!info) return -ENOMEM;

- info->dev = &pdev->dev; platform_set_drvdata(pdev, info); fbi = info->par; fbi->mach_info = mach_info;