From: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com> stable inclusion from stable-5.10.77 commit c828115a14eacbf42042770fd68543f134e89efa bugzilla: 185677 https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I4IAP7 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- commit 10eff1f5788b6ffac212c254e2f3666219576889 upstream. This reverts commit ab609f25d19858513919369ff3d9a63c02cd9e2e. This patch is correct in the sense that we _should_ call device_put() in case of device_register() failure, but the problem in this code is more vast. We need to set bus->state to UNMDIOBUS_REGISTERED before calling device_register() to correctly release the device in mdiobus_free(). This patch prevents us from doing it, since in case of device_register() failure put_device() will be called 2 times and it will cause UAF or something else. Also, Reported-by: tag in revered commit was wrong, since syzbot reported different leak in same function. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210928092657.GI2048@kadam/ Acked-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f12fb1faa4eccf0f355788225335eb4309ff2599.163302406... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com> Acked-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com> --- drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c index 453490be7055..2645ca35103c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c @@ -544,7 +544,6 @@ int __mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *bus, struct module *owner) err = device_register(&bus->dev); if (err) { pr_err("mii_bus %s failed to register\n", bus->id); - put_device(&bus->dev); return -EINVAL; } -- 2.20.1