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