On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 04:46:26PM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:

If PWM device is requested by means of legacy API pwm_request(), its
resources are not freed on module unbind, which may cause an oops on
access, e.g. by reading /sys/kernel/debug/pwm.

Reported-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <redacted>
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 drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

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