Re: [PATCH 3.14 02/77] gpio: sysfs: fix gpio device-attribute leak

[Johan Hovold]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 02:30:08PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 05:26:40PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> > @@ -994,6 +991,8 @@ void gpiod_unexport(struct gpio_desc *de
> >  
> >  		dev = class_find_device(&gpio_class, NULL, desc, match_export);
> >  		if (dev) {
> > +			device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_edge);
> > +			device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_direction);
> >  			gpio_setup_irq(desc, dev, 0);
> >  			clear_bit(FLAG_EXPORT, &desc->flags);
> >  		} else
> > 
> 
> I believe there's a mistake in this backport: the changes to the
> gpiod_unexport() function are being applied to the wrong code block;
> they should be in:
> 
> 	if (dev) {
> 		device_unregister(dev);
> 		put_device(dev);
> 	}
> 
> The backport to the 3.10 kernel have the same problem.

You're right, thanks for catching this.

I'll send a v2.

Johan
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