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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c index 5ea86fd57ae6..4066fb5a935a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c @@ -264,6 +264,13 @@ int __mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *bus, struct module *owner) bus->dev.groups = NULL; dev_set_name(&bus->dev, "%s", bus->id); + /* We need to set state to MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED to correctly release + * the device in mdiobus_free() + * + * State will be updated later in this function in case of success + */ + bus->state = MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED; + err = device_register(&bus->dev); if (err) { pr_err("mii_bus %s failed to register\n", bus->id); |