This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ethernet: Fix error handling in xemaclite_of_probe to the 4.19-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: ethernet-fix-error-handling-in-xemaclite_of_probe.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 40ad5521c9f07b5920edf9f0c7ec0217cd631ecc Author: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 8 02:47:49 2022 +0000 ethernet: Fix error handling in xemaclite_of_probe [ Upstream commit b19ab4b38b06aae12442b2de95ccf58b5dc53584 ] This node pointer is returned by of_parse_phandle() with refcount incremented in this function. Calling of_node_put() to avoid the refcount leak. As the remove function do. Fixes: 5cdaaa12866e ("net: emaclite: adding MDIO and phy lib support") Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220308024751.2320-1-linmq006@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c index edb2215f9993..23a4f9061072 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c @@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@ static int xemaclite_of_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev) if (rc) { dev_err(dev, "Cannot register network device, aborting\n"); - goto error; + goto put_node; } dev_info(dev, @@ -1181,6 +1181,8 @@ static int xemaclite_of_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev) (unsigned int __force)ndev->mem_start, lp->base_addr, ndev->irq); return 0; +put_node: + of_node_put(lp->phy_node); error: free_netdev(ndev); return rc;