Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_export_link

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Jan 30 2015 - 04:29:19 EST


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fix memory leak in the gpio sysfs interface due to failure to drop
> reference to device returned by class_find_device when creating a link.
>
> Fixes: a4177ee7f1a8 ("gpiolib: allow exported GPIO nodes to be named
> using sysfs links")
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v2.6.32
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Let's see if I get it into v3.19 properly...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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