Re: [PATCH 4.9 57/57] net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register

[Florian Fainelli]

On 10/4/21 5:52 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit ab609f25d19858513919369ff3d9a63c02cd9e2e upstream.
> 
> Once device_register() failed, we should call put_device() to
> decrement reference count for cleanup. Or it will cause memory
> leak.

This changed has since been reverted upstream, please drop this change:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=10eff1f5788b6ffac212c254e2f3666219576889
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Florian