2.6.37-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Kashyap, Desai <[email protected]>

commit 84857c8bf83e8aa87afc57d2956ba01f11d82386 upstream.

Added missing release callback for file_operations mptctl_fops.
Without release callback there will be never freed. It remains on
mptctl's eent list even after the file is closed and released.

Relavent RHEL bugzilla is 660871

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c
@@ -597,6 +597,13 @@ mptctl_event_process(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, E
 }
 
 static int
+mptctl_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
+{
+       fasync_helper(-1, filep, 0, &async_queue);
+       return 0;
+}
+
+static int
 mptctl_fasync(int fd, struct file *filep, int mode)
 {
        MPT_ADAPTER     *ioc;
@@ -2815,6 +2822,7 @@ static const struct file_operations mptc
        .llseek =       no_llseek,
        .fasync =       mptctl_fasync,
        .unlocked_ioctl = mptctl_ioctl,
+       .release =      mptctl_release,
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
        .compat_ioctl = compat_mpctl_ioctl,
 #endif


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