Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Fix a reference leak bug in ip22_check_gio()

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2025, Haoxiang Li wrote:

> If gio_device_register fails, gio_dev_put() is required to
> drop the gio_dev device reference.
> 
> Fixes: e84de0c61905 ("MIPS: GIO bus support for SGI IP22/28")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 Even if this does ever trigger in reality, it's seems like a benign issue 
that does not qualify for the -stable tree.  Please read the first section 
of Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst for the acceptance rules 
and if you still think this needs to be backported, then give rationale.

  Maciej