[PATCH 3/5] net: gianfar: fix device leak when querying time stamp info
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-07-25 17:14:15
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Subsystem:
freescale etsec ethernet driver (gianfar), networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Claudiu Manoil, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Make sure to drop the reference to the ptp device taken by
of_find_device_by_node() when querying the time stamping capabilities.
Note that holding a reference to the ptp device does not prevent its
driver data from going away.
Fixes: 7349a74ea75c ("net: ethernet: gianfar_ethtool: get phc index through drvdata")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18
Cc: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c
index 781d92e703cb..c9992ed4e301 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c@@ -1466,8 +1466,10 @@ static int gfar_get_ts_info(struct net_device *dev, if (ptp_node) { ptp_dev = of_find_device_by_node(ptp_node); of_node_put(ptp_node); - if (ptp_dev) + if (ptp_dev) { ptp = platform_get_drvdata(ptp_dev); + put_device(&ptp_dev->dev); + } } if (ptp)
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