From: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2a4d75bfe41232608f5596a6d1369f92ccb20817 upstream. Don't forget to release the device in sock_timestamping_bind_phc() after it was used to get the vclock indices. Fixes: d463126e23f1 ("net: sock: extend SO_TIMESTAMPING for PHC binding") Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/sock.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -843,6 +843,8 @@ static int sock_timestamping_bind_phc(st } num = ethtool_get_phc_vclocks(dev, &vclock_index); + dev_put(dev); + for (i = 0; i < num; i++) { if (*(vclock_index + i) == phc_index) { match = true;