Patch "net: ethernet: arc: Fix a potential memory leak if an optional regulator is deferred" 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

net: ethernet: arc: Fix a potential memory leak if an optional regulator is deferred

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:
net-ethernet-arc-fix-a-potential-memory-leak-if-an-optional-regulator-is-deferred.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: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:59:36 +0100
Subject: net: ethernet: arc: Fix a potential memory leak if an optional regulator is deferred

From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 00777fac28ba3e126b9e63e789a613e8bd2cab25 ]

If the optional regulator is deferred, we must release some resources. They will be re-allocated when the probe function will be called again.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_rockchip.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -169,8 +169,10 @@ static int emac_rockchip_probe(struct pl
 	/* Optional regulator for PHY */
 	priv->regulator = devm_regulator_get_optional(dev, "phy");
 	if (IS_ERR(priv->regulator)) {
-		if (PTR_ERR(priv->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
-			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+		if (PTR_ERR(priv->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
+			err = -EPROBE_DEFER;
+			goto out_clk_disable;
+		}
 		dev_err(dev, "no regulator found\n");
 		priv->regulator = NULL;
 	}

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

queue-4.9/net-ethernet-arc-fix-a-potential-memory-leak-if-an-optional-regulator-is-deferred.patch