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authorLennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>2008-11-09 05:34:47 +0100
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>2008-11-14 18:19:40 -0500
commit3e44017b589f001941723dfdfede2ca6284dddce (patch)
treeddfe46aefebff4ce75b3b9c53fce8dfd2ada3d32 /drivers/net/phy
parent3b259e365998291a02488225e32b9f2b73723b3e (diff)
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phylib: fix premature freeing of struct mii_bus
Commit 46abc02175b3c246dd5141d878f565a8725060c9 ("phylib: give mdio buses a device tree presence") added a call to device_unregister() in a situation where the caller did not intend for the device to be freed yet, but apart from just unregistering the device from the system, device_unregister() does an additional put_device() that is intended to free it. The right function to use in this situation is device_del(), which unregisters the device from the system like device_unregister() does, but without dropping the reference count an additional time. Bug report from Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/phy')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index d0ed1ef284a8..536bda1f428b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ void mdiobus_unregister(struct mii_bus *bus)
BUG_ON(bus->state != MDIOBUS_REGISTERED);
bus->state = MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED;
- device_unregister(&bus->dev);
+ device_del(&bus->dev);
for (i = 0; i < PHY_MAX_ADDR; i++) {
if (bus->phy_map[i])
device_unregister(&bus->phy_map[i]->dev);