This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: mdio: mvusb: Fix an error handling path in mvusb_mdio_probe() to the 6.3-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-mdio-mvusb-fix-an-error-handling-path-in-mvusb_m.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit fffd92d1c075a8b89f55a4d0ffcb8e88235e0402 Author: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri May 5 20:39:33 2023 +0200 net: mdio: mvusb: Fix an error handling path in mvusb_mdio_probe() [ Upstream commit 27c1eaa07283b0c94becf8241f95368267cf558b ] Should of_mdiobus_register() fail, a previous usb_get_dev() call should be undone as in the .disconnect function. Fixes: 04e37d92fbed ("net: phy: add marvell usb to mdio controller") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-mvusb.c b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-mvusb.c index 68fc55906e788..554837c21e73c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-mvusb.c +++ b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-mvusb.c @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ static int mvusb_mdio_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, struct device *dev = &interface->dev; struct mvusb_mdio *mvusb; struct mii_bus *mdio; + int ret; mdio = devm_mdiobus_alloc_size(dev, sizeof(*mvusb)); if (!mdio) @@ -87,7 +88,15 @@ static int mvusb_mdio_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, mdio->write = mvusb_mdio_write; usb_set_intfdata(interface, mvusb); - return of_mdiobus_register(mdio, dev->of_node); + ret = of_mdiobus_register(mdio, dev->of_node); + if (ret) + goto put_dev; + + return 0; + +put_dev: + usb_put_dev(mvusb->udev); + return ret; } static void mvusb_mdio_disconnect(struct usb_interface *interface)