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: 7349a74ea75c ("net: ethernet: gianfar_ethtool: get phc index through drvdata") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18 Cc: Yangbo Lu Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c index 781d92e703cb..c9992ed4e301 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c @@ -1466,8 +1466,10 @@ static int gfar_get_ts_info(struct net_device *dev, if (ptp_node) { ptp_dev = of_find_device_by_node(ptp_node); of_node_put(ptp_node); - if (ptp_dev) + if (ptp_dev) { ptp = platform_get_drvdata(ptp_dev); + put_device(&ptp_dev->dev); + } } if (ptp) -- 2.49.1