Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 28/40] net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:

From: Yanfei Xu yanfei.xu@windriver.com

[ 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