phy: Fix phy_device_free memory leak
Fix memory leak in phy_device_free() for the case when phy_device* returned by phy_device_create() is not registered in the system. Bug description: phy_device_create() sets name of kobject using dev_set_name(), which allocates memory using kvasprintf(), but this memory isn't freed if the underlying device isn't registered properly, because kobject_cleanup() is not called in that case. This can happen (and actually is happening on our machines) if phy_device_register(), called by mdiobus_scan(), fails. Patch description: Embedded struct device is initialized in phy_device_create() and it counterpart phy_device_free() just drops one reference to the device, which leads to proper deinitialization including releasing the kobject name memory. Signed-off-by: Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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