Re: [PATCH 5.4 56/56] net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register

Florian Fainelli
2021-10-04T20:37:01Z

On 10/4/21 5:53 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
>
> commit ab609f25d19858513919369ff3d9a63c02cd9e2e upstream.
>
> Once device_register() failed, we should call put_device() to
> decrement reference count for cleanup. Or it will cause memory
> leak.

Please also revert this change which has since been reverted upstream:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=10eff1f5788b6ffac212c254e2f3666219576889
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Florian