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Subject: [PATCH 5.8 387/464] net: phy: fix memory leak in device-create error path
Date:   Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:15:40 +0200
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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit d02cbc46136105cf86f84ac355e16f04696f538d ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -616,7 +616,9 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(str
 	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;
 
@@ -650,10 +652,8 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(str
 		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);
 	}