This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
phy: fix device reference leaks
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
phy-fix-device-reference-leaks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 17ae1c650c1ecf8dc8e16d54b0f68a345965f43f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:40:19 +0100
Subject: phy: fix device reference leaks
From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 17ae1c650c1ecf8dc8e16d54b0f68a345965f43f upstream.
Make sure to drop the reference taken by bus_find_device_by_name()
before returning from phy_connect() and phy_attach().
Note that both function still take a reference to the phy device
through phy_attach_direct().
Fixes: e13934563db0 ("[PATCH] PHY Layer fixup")
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ struct phy_device *phy_connect(struct ne
phydev = to_phy_device(d);
rc = phy_connect_direct(dev, phydev, handler, interface);
+ put_device(d);
if (rc)
return ERR_PTR(rc);
@@ -721,6 +722,7 @@ struct phy_device *phy_attach(struct net
phydev = to_phy_device(d);
rc = phy_attach_direct(dev, phydev, phydev->dev_flags, interface);
+ put_device(d);
if (rc)
return ERR_PTR(rc);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/phy-fix-device-reference-leaks.patch
