Patch "spi: fix device-node leaks" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

spi: fix device-node leaks

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
spi-fix-device-node-leaks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:47:05 +0100
Subject: spi: fix device-node leaks

From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>

commit 8324147f38019865b29d03baf28412d2ec0bd828 upstream.

Make sure to release the device-node reference taken in of_register_spi_device() on errors and when deregistering the device.

---
 drivers/spi/spi.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -621,8 +621,10 @@ void spi_unregister_device(struct spi_de
 	if (!spi)
 		return;
 
-	if (spi->dev.of_node)
+	if (spi->dev.of_node) {
 		of_node_clear_flag(spi->dev.of_node, OF_POPULATED);
+		of_node_put(spi->dev.of_node);
+	}
 	if (ACPI_COMPANION(&spi->dev))
 		acpi_device_clear_enumerated(ACPI_COMPANION(&spi->dev));
 	device_unregister(&spi->dev);

@@ -1589,11 +1591,13 @@ of_register_spi_device(struct spi_master
 	if (rc) {
 		dev_err(&master->dev, "spi_device register error %s\n",
 			nc->full_name);
-		goto err_out;
+		goto err_of_node_put;
 	}
 
 	return spi;
 
+err_of_node_put:
+	of_node_put(nc);
 err_out:
 	spi_dev_put(spi);
 	return ERR_PTR(rc);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/spi-fix-device-node-leaks.patch