netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: fix memory leak in device-create error path

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Date:   Sat, 08 Aug 2020 14:13:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johan@...nel.org
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: fix memory leak in device-create error
 path

From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Date: Thu,  6 Aug 2020 17:37:53 +0200

> A recent commit introduced a late error path in phy_device_create()
> which fails to release the device name allocated by dev_set_name().
> 
> Fixes: 13d0ab6750b2 ("net: phy: check return code when requesting PHY driver module")
> Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thank you.