[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_export_link" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_export_link

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From e3edeb67ce2f98660d296b1c7c68cb37f0bf22b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:02:45 +0100
Subject: gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_export_link

commit 0f303db08df0df9bd0966443ad6001e63960af16 upstream.

Fix memory leak in the gpio sysfs interface due to failure to drop
reference to device returned by class_find_device when creating a link.

Fixes: a4177ee7f1a8 ("gpiolib: allow exported GPIO nodes to be named
using sysfs links")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
  - file rename: drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c -> drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index b9b955530596..69fc2fcfc3e9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -911,6 +911,7 @@ int gpiod_export_link(struct device *dev, const char *name,
 		if (tdev != NULL) {
 			status = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &tdev->kobj,
 						name);
+			put_device(tdev);
 		} else {
 			status = -ENODEV;
 		}
--
2.1.4