BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892417
[ 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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kelsey Skunberg <kelsey.skunberg@canonical.com>
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;
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);
}