This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: phy: xgmiitorgmii: Fix refcount leak in xgmiitorgmii_probe to the 4.14-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-phy-xgmiitorgmii-fix-refcount-leak-in-xgmiitorgm.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit daa1462ea1d6e5e0ced274b59524b42d05c5f355 Author: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Dec 29 10:29:25 2022 +0400 net: phy: xgmiitorgmii: Fix refcount leak in xgmiitorgmii_probe [ Upstream commit d039535850ee47079d59527e96be18d8e0daa84b ] of_phy_find_device() return device node with refcount incremented. Call put_device() to relese it when not needed anymore. Fixes: ab4e6ee578e8 ("net: phy: xgmiitorgmii: Check phy_driver ready before accessing") Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/xilinx_gmii2rgmii.c b/drivers/net/phy/xilinx_gmii2rgmii.c index aef525467af0..55157c3197bd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/xilinx_gmii2rgmii.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/xilinx_gmii2rgmii.c @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ static int xgmiitorgmii_probe(struct mdio_device *mdiodev) if (!priv->phy_dev->drv) { dev_info(dev, "Attached phy not ready\n"); + put_device(&priv->phy_dev->mdio.dev); return -EPROBE_DEFER; }