This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled gianfar: ethtool: Fix refcount leak in gfar_get_ts_info 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: gianfar-ethtool-fix-refcount-leak-in-gfar_get_ts_inf.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 a158dbd72f6b405a515a0497e563aaf78a675659 Author: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 10 01:53:13 2022 +0000 gianfar: ethtool: Fix refcount leak in gfar_get_ts_info [ Upstream commit 2ac5b58e645c66932438bb021cb5b52097ce70b0 ] The of_find_compatible_node() function returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, We should use of_node_put() on it when done Add the missing of_node_put() to release the refcount. Fixes: 7349a74ea75c ("net: ethernet: gianfar_ethtool: get phc index through drvdata") Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310015313.14938-1-linmq006@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c index 395a5266ea30..0cddaaaf48aa 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c @@ -1528,6 +1528,7 @@ static int gfar_get_ts_info(struct net_device *dev, ptp_node = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "fsl,etsec-ptp"); if (ptp_node) { ptp_dev = of_find_device_by_node(ptp_node); + of_node_put(ptp_node); if (ptp_dev) ptp = platform_get_drvdata(ptp_dev); }