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Subject[PATCH 3.2 15/70] spi: fix parent-device reference leak
3.2.76-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

commit 157f38f993919b648187ba341bfb05d0e91ad2f6 upstream.

Fix parent-device reference leak due to SPI-core taking an unnecessary
reference to the parent when allocating the master structure, a
reference that was never released.

Note that driver core takes its own reference to the parent when the
master device is registered.

Fixes: 49dce689ad4e ("spi doesn't need class_device")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
drivers/spi/spi.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/spi/spi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ struct spi_master *spi_alloc_master(stru

device_initialize(&master->dev);
master->dev.class = &spi_master_class;
- master->dev.parent = get_device(dev);
+ master->dev.parent = dev;
spi_master_set_devdata(master, &master[1]);

return master;

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