Clément Léger
ce93fdb5f2
net: phylink: move phy_device_free() to correctly release phy device
After calling fwnode_phy_find_device(), the phy device refcount is incremented. Then, when the phy device is attached to a netdev with phy_attach_direct(), the refcount is also incremented but only decremented in the caller if phy_attach_direct() fails. Move phy_device_free() before the "if" to always release it correctly. Indeed, either phy_attach_direct() failed and we don't want to keep a reference to the phydev or it succeeded and a reference has been taken internally. Fixes: 25396f680dd6 ("net: phylink: introduce phylink_fwnode_phy_connect()") Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <clement.leger@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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