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

ipmi_si: Fix error handling of platform device

to the 4.15-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: ipmi_si-fix-error-handling-of-platform-device.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 174134ac760275457bb0d1560a0dbe6cf8a12ad6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:18:33 -0600 Subject: ipmi_si: Fix error handling of platform device

From: Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com

commit 174134ac760275457bb0d1560a0dbe6cf8a12ad6 upstream.

Cleanup of platform devices created by the IPMI driver was not being done correctly and could result in a memory leak. So create a local boolean to know how to clean up those platform devices.

Reported-by: David Binderman dcb314@hotmail.com Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -2045,6 +2045,7 @@ static int try_smi_init(struct smi_info int rv = 0; int i; char *init_name = NULL; + bool platform_device_registered = false;

pr_info(PFX "Trying %s-specified %s state machine at %s address 0x%lx, slave address 0x%x, irq %d\n", ipmi_addr_src_to_str(new_smi->io.addr_source), @@ -2173,6 +2174,7 @@ static int try_smi_init(struct smi_info rv); goto out_err; } + platform_device_registered = true; }

dev_set_drvdata(new_smi->io.dev, new_smi); @@ -2279,10 +2281,11 @@ out_err: }

if (new_smi->pdev) { - platform_device_unregister(new_smi->pdev); + if (platform_device_registered) + platform_device_unregister(new_smi->pdev); + else + platform_device_put(new_smi->pdev); new_smi->pdev = NULL; - } else if (new_smi->pdev) { - platform_device_put(new_smi->pdev); }

kfree(init_name);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cminyard@mvista.com are

queue-4.15/ipmi_si-fix-error-handling-of-platform-device.patch