Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 28/40] net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register

[Sasha Levin]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:02:23PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit ab609f25d19858513919369ff3d9a63c02cd9e2e ]
> >
> > Once device_register() failed, we should call put_device() to
> > decrement reference count for cleanup. Or it will cause memory
> > leak.
>
> Hi Sasha
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/4/1427
>
> Please don't backport for any stable kernel.

Dropped, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha