From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:02:46 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low
X-Git-Tag: v3.19~23^2
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=49d2ca84e433dab854c7a866bc6add09cfab682d;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low

Fix memory leak in the gpio sysfs interface due to failure to drop
reference to device returned by class_find_device when setting the
gpio-line polarity.

Fixes: 0769746183ca ("gpiolib: add support for changing value polarity
in sysfs")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# v2.6.33
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c
index 4667830f350..7722ed53bd6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ int gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value)
 	}
 
 	status = sysfs_set_active_low(desc, dev, value);
-
+	put_device(dev);
 unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&sysfs_lock);