linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 0/7] net: stmmac: fix probe error handling and phydev leaks

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Message-Id: <20161202.104350.1288152600872727205.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 02 Dec 2016 10:43:50 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johan@...nel.org
Cc:     peppe.cavallaro@...com, alexandre.torgue@...com,
        manabian@...il.com, carlo@...one.org, khilman@...libre.com,
        mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com, maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com,
        wens@...e.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/7] net: stmmac: fix probe error handling and
 phydev leaks

From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:29:48 +0100

> This series fixes a number of issues with the stmmac-driver probe error
> handling, which for example left clocks enabled after probe failures.
> 
> The final patch fixes a failure to deregister and free any fixed-link
> PHYs that were registered during probe on probe errors and on driver
> unbind. It also fixes a related of-node leak on late probe errors.
> 
> This series depends on the of_phy_deregister_fixed_link() helper that
> was just merged to net.
> 
> As mentioned earlier, one staging driver also suffers from a similar
> leak and can be fixed up once the above mentioned helper hits mainline.
> 
> Note that these patches have only been compile tested.

Series applied, thanks.