From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d02cbc46136105cf86f84ac355e16f04696f538d ] A recent commit introduced a late error path in phy_device_create() which fails to release the device name allocated by dev_set_name(). Fixes: 13d0ab6750b2 ("net: phy: check return code when requesting PHY driver module") Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c @@ -616,7 +616,9 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(str if (c45_ids) dev->c45_ids = *c45_ids; dev->irq = bus->irq[addr]; + dev_set_name(&mdiodev->dev, PHY_ID_FMT, bus->id, addr); + device_initialize(&mdiodev->dev); dev->state = PHY_DOWN; @@ -650,10 +652,8 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(str ret = phy_request_driver_module(dev, phy_id); } - if (!ret) { - device_initialize(&mdiodev->dev); - } else { - kfree(dev); + if (ret) { + put_device(&mdiodev->dev); dev = ERR_PTR(ret); }