From 3e44017b589f001941723dfdfede2ca6284dddce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 05:34:47 +0100
Subject: phylib: fix premature freeing of struct mii_bus

Commit 46abc02175b3c246dd5141d878f565a8725060c9 ("phylib: give mdio
buses a device tree presence") added a call to device_unregister() in
a situation where the caller did not intend for the device to be
freed yet, but apart from just unregistering the device from the
system, device_unregister() does an additional put_device() that is
intended to free it.

The right function to use in this situation is device_del(), which
unregisters the device from the system like device_unregister() does,
but without dropping the reference count an additional time.

Bug report from Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Tested-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'drivers/net/phy')

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index d0ed1ef..536bda1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ void mdiobus_unregister(struct mii_bus *bus)
 	BUG_ON(bus->state != MDIOBUS_REGISTERED);
 	bus->state = MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED;
 
-	device_unregister(&bus->dev);
+	device_del(&bus->dev);
 	for (i = 0; i < PHY_MAX_ADDR; i++) {
 		if (bus->phy_map[i])
 			device_unregister(&bus->phy_map[i]->dev);
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