net: phy: fix memory leak in device-create error path
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Thu, 6 Aug 2020 15:37:53 +0000 (17:37 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 8 Aug 2020 21:11:42 +0000 (14:11 -0700)
A recent commit introduced a late error path in phy_device_create()
which fails to release the device name allocated by dev_set_name().

Fixes: 13d0ab6750b2 ("net: phy: check return code when requesting PHY driver module")
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c

index 1b95235..57d4464 100644 (file)
@@ -615,7 +615,9 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, u32 phy_id,
        if (c45_ids)
                dev->c45_ids = *c45_ids;
        dev->irq = bus->irq[addr];
+
        dev_set_name(&mdiodev->dev, PHY_ID_FMT, bus->id, addr);
+       device_initialize(&mdiodev->dev);
 
        dev->state = PHY_DOWN;
 
@@ -649,10 +651,8 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, u32 phy_id,
                ret = phy_request_driver_module(dev, phy_id);
        }
 
-       if (!ret) {
-               device_initialize(&mdiodev->dev);
-       } else {
-               kfree(dev);
+       if (ret) {
+               put_device(&mdiodev->dev);
                dev = ERR_PTR(ret);
        }