drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c: call put_device on device_register() failure
It is required to call put_device() if device_register() fails, so that we give up the last reference to the device. Calling put_device allows for mdiobus_release to be executed, kfreeing the bus. Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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