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Date:   Wed, 6 Oct 2021 11:12:21 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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        Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 28/40] net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:02:23PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit ab609f25d19858513919369ff3d9a63c02cd9e2e ]
>>
>> Once device_register() failed, we should call put_device() to
>> decrement reference count for cleanup. Or it will cause memory
>> leak.
>
>Hi Sasha
>
>https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/4/1427
>
>Please don't backport for any stable kernel.

Dropped, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha