gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_export_link
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@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.32
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 f62aa11..4667830 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c
@@ -648,6 +648,7 @@
if (tdev != NULL) {
status = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &tdev->kobj,
name);
+ put_device(tdev);
} else {
status = -ENODEV;
}