[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "spi: Fix documentation of spi_alloc_master()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    spi: Fix documentation of spi_alloc_master()

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/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt19.

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 2b43a460bc79cc37c1369e31ed2729cfb9948072 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 01:46:54 +0300
Subject: spi: Fix documentation of spi_alloc_master()

commit a394d635193b641f2c86ead5ada5b115d57c51f8 upstream.

Actually, spi_master_put() after spi_alloc_master() must _not_ be followed
by kfree(). The memory is already freed with the call to spi_master_put()
through spi_master_class, which registers a release function. Calling both
spi_master_put() and kfree() results in often nasty (and delayed) crashes
elsewhere in the kernel, often in the networking stack.

This reverts commit eb4af0f5349235df2e4a5057a72fc8962d00308a.

Link to patch and concerns: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/3/269
or
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1209.0/00790.html

Alexey Klimov: This revert becomes valid after
94c69f765f1b4a658d96905ec59928e3e3e07e6a when spi-imx.c
has been fixed and there is no need to call kfree() so comment
for spi_alloc_master() should be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Klimov <alexey.klimov at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/spi/spi.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi.c
index 3950e4495093..8f2c442eb1e1 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c
@@ -1458,8 +1458,7 @@ static struct class spi_master_class = {
  *
  * The caller is responsible for assigning the bus number and initializing
  * the master's methods before calling spi_register_master(); and (after errors
- * adding the device) calling spi_master_put() and kfree() to prevent a memory
- * leak.
+ * adding the device) calling spi_master_put() to prevent a memory leak.
  */
 struct spi_master *spi_alloc_master(struct device *dev, unsigned size)
 {