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

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 16:02:23 +0200

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Yanfei Xu <[email-masked]>
> 
> [ 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.

	Andrew