[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "devres: fix devres_get()" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Sep 28 17:20:35 UTC 2015


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

    devres: fix devres_get()

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-ckt18.

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 6e97c4481ad68ad14f40f2089cb75d3f80cbe139 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:29:00 +0900
Subject: devres: fix devres_get()

commit 64526370d11ce8868ca495723d595b61e8697fbf upstream.

Currently, devres_get() passes devres_free() the pointer to devres,
but devres_free() should be given with the pointer to resource data.

Fixes: 9ac7849e35f7 ("devres: device resource management")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/base/devres.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
index 52302946770f..87643ca7c035 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devres.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
@@ -297,10 +297,10 @@ void * devres_get(struct device *dev, void *new_res,
 	if (!dr) {
 		add_dr(dev, &new_dr->node);
 		dr = new_dr;
-		new_dr = NULL;
+		new_res = NULL;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->devres_lock, flags);
-	devres_free(new_dr);
+	devres_free(new_res);

 	return dr->data;
 }




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