Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 28/40] net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: 2021-10-05 14:03:04
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Yanfei Xu <redacted> [ Upstream commit ab609f25d19858513919369ff3d9a63c02cd9e2e ] Once device_register() failed, we should call put_device() to decrement reference count for cleanup. Or it will cause memory leak.
Hi Sasha https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/4/1427 Please don't backport for any stable kernel. Andrew