[PATCH net] net: mctp: usb: properly drop the usb interface on probe error
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2026-02-23 11:33:31
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management component transport protocol (mctp), networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Jeremy Kerr, Matt Johnston, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
When an error happens in mctp_usb_probe() the reference count on the usb interface structure needs to be properly dropped as it was incremented earlier in the function. Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au> Cc: Matt Johnston <matt@codeconstruct.com.au> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Assisted-by: gkh_clanker_2000 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/net/mctp/mctp-usb.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/mctp/mctp-usb.c b/drivers/net/mctp/mctp-usb.c
index ef860cfc629f..eef17ae89298 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mctp/mctp-usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mctp/mctp-usb.c@@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ static int mctp_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, usb_free_urb(dev->tx_urb); usb_free_urb(dev->rx_urb); free_netdev(netdev); + usb_put_dev(dev->usbdev); return rc; }
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