This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Fix refcount leak in mv88e6xxx_mdios_register
to the 5.18-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:
net-dsa-mv88e6xxx-fix-refcount-leak-in-mv88e6xxx_mdi.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5309dd1ec61dd3f638fdef2b37bfd94d672de403
Author: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu May 26 18:52:08 2022 +0400
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Fix refcount leak in mv88e6xxx_mdios_register
[ Upstream commit 02ded5a173619b11728b8bf75a3fd995a2c1ff28 ]
of_get_child_by_name() returns a node pointer with refcount
incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when done.
mv88e6xxx_mdio_register() pass the device node to of_mdiobus_register().
We don't need the device node after it.
Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.
Fixes: a3c53be55c95 ("net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Support multiple MDIO busses")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Marek Behún <kabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
index 64f4fdd02902..732570fb97b1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
@@ -3960,6 +3960,7 @@ static int mv88e6xxx_mdios_register(struct mv88e6xxx_chip *chip,
*/
child = of_get_child_by_name(np, "mdio");
err = mv88e6xxx_mdio_register(chip, child, false);
+ of_node_put(child);
if (err)
return err;
