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Russell King committed f018ae7a8c5
of_mdio: fix MDIO phy device refcounting bus_find_device() is defined as: * This is similar to the bus_for_each_dev() function above, but it * returns a reference to a device that is 'found' for later use, as * determined by the @match callback. and it does indeed return a reference-counted pointer to the device: while ((dev = next_device(&i))) if (match(dev, data) && get_device(dev)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ break; klist_iter_exit(&i); return dev; What that means is that when we're done with the struct device, we must drop that reference. Neither of_phy_connect() nor of_phy_attach() did this when phy_connect_direct() or phy_attach_direct() failed. With our previous patch, phy_connect_direct() and phy_attach_direct() take a new refcount on the phy device when successful, so we can drop our local reference immediatley after these functions, whether or not they succeeded. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>