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| author | Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com> | 2014-01-30 15:45:46 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-30 16:56:54 -0800 |
| commit | 0c692d07842a67d9aa6b8266a80e4ac460a5c1a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ecdf75687efe387fd47feec6df5b88b5cc48bc0 /drivers | |
| parent | 54f5968db9e09de8779b5a5174719af51f1da199 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0c692d07842a67d9aa6b8266a80e4ac460a5c1a2.tar.bz2 | |
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -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; } |