linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v2 0/5] net: fix phydev reference leaks

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Date:   Sun, 27 Nov 2016 20:02:38 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johan@...nel.org
Cc:     f.fainelli@...il.com, madalin.bucur@....com, timur@...eaurora.org,
        andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/5] net: fix phydev reference leaks

From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:21:26 +0100

> This series fixes a number of phydev reference leaks (and one of_node
> leak) due to failure to put the reference taken by of_phy_find_device().
> 
> Note that I did not try to fix drivers/net/phy/xilinx_gmii2rgmii.c which
> still leaks a reference.
> 
> Against net but should apply just as fine to net-next.
 ...
> v2: 
>  - use put_device() instead of phy_dev_free() to put the references
>    taken in net/dsa (patch 1/4).
>  - add four new patches fixing similar leaks

Series applied, thanks.