From: Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng....@mediatek.com> On driver detach, devm_phy_release() will put a refcount to the phy, so gets a refconut to it before return.
Signed-off-by: Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng....@mediatek.com> Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kis...@ti.com> --- drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c index fc48fac..8c7f27d 100644 --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c @@ -636,8 +636,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_of_phy_get); * @np: node containing the phy * @index: index of the phy * - * Gets the phy using _of_phy_get(), and associates a device with it using - * devres. On driver detach, release function is invoked on the devres data, + * Gets the phy using _of_phy_get(), then gets a refcount to it, + * and associates a device with it using devres. On driver detach, + * release function is invoked on the devres data, * then, devres data is freed. * */ @@ -651,13 +652,21 @@ struct phy *devm_of_phy_get_by_index(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np, return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); phy = _of_phy_get(np, index); - if (!IS_ERR(phy)) { - *ptr = phy; - devres_add(dev, ptr); - } else { + if (IS_ERR(phy)) { devres_free(ptr); + return phy; } + if (!try_module_get(phy->ops->owner)) { + devres_free(ptr); + return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER); + } + + get_device(&phy->dev); + + *ptr = phy; + devres_add(dev, ptr); + return phy; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_of_phy_get_by_index); -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/