[PATCH net 3/4] net: ethernet: ti: davinci_emac: fix device reference leak

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Tue Nov 01 2016 - 07:05:21 EST


Make sure to drop the references taken by bus_find_device() before
returning from emac_dev_open().

Note that phy_connect still takes a reference to the phy device.

Fixes: 5d69e0076a72 ("net: davinci_emac: switch to new mdio")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c
index 2fd94a5bc1f3..84fbe5714f8b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c
@@ -1410,6 +1410,7 @@ static int emac_dev_open(struct net_device *ndev)
int i = 0;
struct emac_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
struct phy_device *phydev = NULL;
+ struct device *phy = NULL;

ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(&priv->pdev->dev);
if (ret < 0) {
@@ -1488,19 +1489,20 @@ static int emac_dev_open(struct net_device *ndev)

/* use the first phy on the bus if pdata did not give us a phy id */
if (!phydev && !priv->phy_id) {
- struct device *phy;
-
phy = bus_find_device(&mdio_bus_type, NULL, NULL,
match_first_device);
- if (phy)
+ if (phy) {
priv->phy_id = dev_name(phy);
+ if (!priv->phy_id || !*priv->phy_id)
+ put_device(phy);
+ }
}

if (!phydev && priv->phy_id && *priv->phy_id) {
phydev = phy_connect(ndev, priv->phy_id,
&emac_adjust_link,
PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_MII);
-
+ put_device(phy); /* reference taken by bus_find_device */
if (IS_ERR(phydev)) {
dev_err(emac_dev, "could not connect to phy %s\n",
priv->phy_id);
--
2.7.3