[PATCH net] net: phy: fix memory leak in device-create error path

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Thu Aug 06 2020 - 12:44:18 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 1b9523595839..57d44648c8dd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -615,7 +615,9 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, u32 phy_id,
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;

@@ -649,10 +651,8 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, u32 phy_id,
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);
}

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2.26.2