[PATCH] pwm: fix device reference leak

From	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] pwm: fix device reference leak
Date	2016-11-01 11:50 +0100
Message-ID	<syENH-7yd-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

Make sure to drop the reference to the parent device taken by
class_find_device() after "unexporting" any children when deregistering
a pwm chip.

Fixes: 0733424c9ba9 ("pwm: Unexport children before chip removal")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/pwm/sysfs.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c b/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c
index 0296d8178ae2..a813239300c3 100644
--- a/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pwm/sysfs.c
@@ -425,6 +425,8 @@ void pwmchip_sysfs_unexport_children(struct pwm_chip *chip)
 		if (test_bit(PWMF_EXPORTED, &pwm->flags))
 			pwm_unexport_child(parent, pwm);
 	}
+
+	put_device(parent);
 }
 
 static int __init pwm_sysfs_init(void)
-- 
2.7.3

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

[PATCH] pwm: fix device reference leak Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2016-11-01 11:50 +0100

csiph-web