of_mdio: fix MDIO phy device refcounting
authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 19:36:13 +0000 (20:36 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 25 Sep 2015 06:04:52 +0000 (23:04 -0700)
commitf018ae7a8c576345d56a0cd40d86c0574a2eb360
tree71e460c11f9dead62f31503e1608c21cefbe0a50
parent7322967bc1bd97ac9c49ecea19e5a1f681ca27ee
of_mdio: fix MDIO phy device refcounting

bus_find_device() is defined as:

 * This is similar to the bus_for_each_dev() function above, but it
 * returns a reference to a device that is 'found' for later use, as
 * determined by the @match callback.

and it does indeed return a reference-counted pointer to the device:

        while ((dev = next_device(&i)))
                if (match(dev, data) && get_device(dev))
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        break;
        klist_iter_exit(&i);
        return dev;

What that means is that when we're done with the struct device, we must
drop that reference.  Neither of_phy_connect() nor of_phy_attach() did
this when phy_connect_direct() or phy_attach_direct() failed.

With our previous patch, phy_connect_direct() and phy_attach_direct()
take a new refcount on the phy device when successful, so we can drop
our local reference immediatley after these functions, whether or not
they succeeded.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/of/of_mdio.c