[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "hsi: fix double kfree" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Jan 4 23:23:22 UTC 2016


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

    hsi: fix double kfree

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt1.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From a972f4fa37c3a5880d1025e596ebf1c1ef8f88c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geliang Tang <geliangtang at 163.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 22:35:21 +0800
Subject: hsi: fix double kfree

commit f098a045350ecd6045f2f2d5a50fecf2a98962d7 upstream.

When device_register() fails, kfree() is called in hsi_client_release(),
hence there is no need to call kfree in err3 again.

Fixes: a2aa24734d9db ("HSI: Add common DT binding for HSI client devices")
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang at 163.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/hsi/hsi.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hsi/hsi.c b/drivers/hsi/hsi.c
index fe93712..35d631e 100644
--- a/drivers/hsi/hsi.c
+++ b/drivers/hsi/hsi.c
@@ -300,7 +300,6 @@ static void hsi_add_client_from_dt(struct hsi_port *port,
 	if (device_register(&cl->device) < 0) {
 		pr_err("hsi: failed to register client: %s\n", name);
 		put_device(&cl->device);
-		goto err3;
 	}

 	return;
--
1.9.1





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