linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] net: gianfar: fix device leak when querying time stamp info

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Message-ID: <20250725171213.880-4-johan@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:12:11 +0200
From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>,
	Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
	Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
	Wei Fang <wei.fang@....com>,
	Clark Wang <xiaoning.wang@....com>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>,
	Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
	Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
	MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar@...com>,
	Roger Quadros <rogerq@...nel.org>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] net: gianfar: fix device leak when querying time stamp info

Make sure to drop the reference to the ptp device taken by
of_find_device_by_node() when querying the time stamping capabilities.

Note that holding a reference to the ptp device does not prevent its
driver data from going away.

Fixes: 7349a74ea75c ("net: ethernet: gianfar_ethtool: get phc index through drvdata")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org	# 4.18
Cc: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@....com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c
index 781d92e703cb..c9992ed4e301 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c
@@ -1466,8 +1466,10 @@ static int gfar_get_ts_info(struct net_device *dev,
 	if (ptp_node) {
 		ptp_dev = of_find_device_by_node(ptp_node);
 		of_node_put(ptp_node);
-		if (ptp_dev)
+		if (ptp_dev) {
 			ptp = platform_get_drvdata(ptp_dev);
+			put_device(&ptp_dev->dev);
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (ptp)
-- 
2.49.1