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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 01:35:20PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 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

Now dropped from everywhere, thanks.

greg k-h