[PATCH] net: dsa: microchip: Fix parent_mdio_bus reference leak in ksz_mdio_register()
From: Wentao Liang
Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 06:51:05 EST
of_mdio_find_bus() returns a mii_bus whose embedded struct device has
its reference count incremented. When ksz_mdio_register() fails after
the parent bus has been stored in dev->parent_mdio_bus, that reference
is never dropped, so the parent MDIO bus device leaks on every probe
failure.
Drop the reference before returning from the error path.
Fixes: 9afaf0eec2ab ("net: dsa: microchip: Refactor MDIO handling for side MDIO access")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c b/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c
index 144373e13bea..fcf3a29ffca3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c
@@ -2807,6 +2807,11 @@ static int ksz_mdio_register(struct ksz_device *dev)
}
put_mdio_node:
+ if (ret && dev->parent_mdio_bus) {
+ put_device(&dev->parent_mdio_bus->dev);
+ dev->parent_mdio_bus = NULL;
+ }
+
of_node_put(mdio_np);
of_node_put(parent_bus_node);
--
2.34.1