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Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 22:46:32 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: Fix potential memory leak caused in error
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:06:54PM -0500, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> In ethoc_probe, a failure of mdiobus_register() does not release
> the memory allocated by mdiobus_alloc. The patch fixes this issue.

Hi Aditya

Please improve the Subject: line to indicate which driver you are
fixing.

A Fixes: tag would also be nice.

  Andrew