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| author | Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com> | 2014-01-10 12:42:19 +1100 |
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| committer | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2014-01-14 16:04:42 +1100 |
| commit | e5e9b7b5a7827e60f23fabf9e404cb4ba8b211c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c423d8e5c5990ba2135b06e14e39a76a916ee74 | |
| parent | 8f56ad5989985f8949812e2de523b854f9a7a3a1 (diff) | |
drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c: call put_device on device_register() failure
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.
Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c index 930694d3a13f..71e49000fbf3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ 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; } |