Make sure to drop the reference to the ptp device taken by of_find_device_by_node() when querying the time stamping capabilities. Note that holding a reference to the ptp device does not prevent its driver data from going away. Fixes: 17ae0b0ee9db ("dpaa_eth: add the get_ts_info interface for ethtool") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19 Cc: Yangbo Lu Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_ethtool.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_ethtool.c index 9986f6e1f587..7fc01baef280 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_ethtool.c @@ -401,8 +401,10 @@ static int dpaa_get_ts_info(struct net_device *net_dev, of_node_put(ptp_node); } - if (ptp_dev) + if (ptp_dev) { ptp = platform_get_drvdata(ptp_dev); + put_device(&ptp_dev->dev); + } if (ptp) info->phc_index = ptp->phc_index; -- 2.49.1