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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: spi_ks8895: Don't leak references to SPI
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:00:39 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:54:05 +0100

> The ks8895 driver is using spi_dev_get() apparently just to take a copy
> of the SPI device used to instantiate it but never calls spi_dev_put()
> to free it.  Since the device is guaranteed to exist between probe() and
> remove() there should be no need for the driver to take an extra
> reference to it so fix the leak by just using a straight assignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Applied.