From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Levente Kurusa Subject: [PATCH 1/4] net: phy: call put_device on device_register() failure Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 20:22:34 +0100 Message-ID: <1386962557-8899-2-git-send-email-levex@linux.com> References: <1386962557-8899-1-git-send-email-levex@linux.com> Cc: Levente Kurusa , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Grant Likely , =?UTF-8?q?Micha=C5=82=20Miros=C5=82aw?= , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: LKML Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1386962557-8899-1-git-send-email-levex@linux.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org It is required to call put_device() if device_register() fails, so that we give up the last reference to the device. Calling put_device allows for mdiobus_release to be executed, kfreeing the bus. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Grant Likely Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa --- drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c index 5617876..b071af7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ int mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *bus) err = device_register(&bus->dev); if (err) { pr_err("mii_bus %s failed to register\n", bus->id); + put_device(&bus->dev); return -EINVAL; } -- 1.8.3.1