From: Lennert Buytenhek Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 04:34:47 +0000 (+0100) Subject: phylib: fix premature freeing of struct mii_bus X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3e44017b589f001941723dfdfede2ca6284dddce;p=linux-beck.git 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 . Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek Tested-by: Bryan Wu Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- 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);