gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_export_link

commit 0f303db08df0df9bd0966443ad6001e63960af16 upstream.

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")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
[lizf: Backported to 3.4: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 6c4443b191d4800d2f9d59cdf7100d610121c433..011d1340252551b94b64910a341dc4caa36b6337 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -825,6 +825,7 @@ int gpio_export_link(struct device *dev, const char *name, unsigned gpio)
                if (tdev != NULL) {
                        status = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &tdev->kobj,
                                                name);
+                       put_device(tdev);
                } else {
                        status = -ENODEV;
                }