commit 9861f72074c77a8a065622c1be7e9c4277e600eb
author Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Thu Sep 24 20:36:33 2015 +0100
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Thu Sep 24 23:04:53 2015 -0700
tree cba58d3959606f2f4d7dd5ea95f8a79ac73fd2ad
parent 38737e490d4ea91660d3cec83ef88c4e6d360ae4

net: fix net_device refcounting

of_find_net_device_by_node() uses class_find_device() internally to
lookup the corresponding network device.  class_find_device() returns
a reference to the embedded struct device, with its refcount
incremented.

Add a comment to the definition in net/core/net-sysfs.c indicating the
need to drop this refcount, and fix the DSA code to drop this refcount
when the OF-generated platform data is cleaned up and freed.  Also
arrange for the ref to be dropped when handling errors.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net/dsa/dsa.c

diff --git a/net/dsa/dsa.c b/net/dsa/dsa.c
index bf4ba15..c59fa5d 100644
--- a/net/dsa/dsa.c
+++ b/net/dsa/dsa.c
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@
 	pd = kzalloc(sizeof(*pd), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pd) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out_put_mdio;
+		goto out_put_ethernet;
 	}
 
 	dev->platform_data = pd;
@@ -773,6 +773,8 @@
 out_free:
 	kfree(pd);
 	dev->platform_data = NULL;
+out_put_ethernet:
+	put_device(&ethernet_dev->dev);
 out_put_mdio:
 	put_device(&mdio_bus->dev);
 	return ret;
@@ -786,6 +788,7 @@
 		return;
 
 	dsa_of_free_platform_data(pd);
+	put_device(&pd->of_netdev->dev);
 	kfree(pd);
 }
 #else