Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: vitesse-vsc73xx: Fix SPI device reference leak in vsc73xx_spi_probe()
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: 2026-09-17 12:41:00
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 10:49:20AM +0000, Wentao Liang wrote:
spi_dev_get() takes a reference on the SPI device, but neither the
probe error paths nor vsc73xx_spi_remove() ever release it, so the
spi_device can never be freed after the driver has been unbound.
Release the reference on both probe error paths and in remove().
Fixes: 95711cd5f0b4 ("net: dsa: vsc73xx: Split vsc73xx driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <redacted>Please set the Subject line to indicate net: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-netdev.html Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Andrew