if (err) {
                dev_err(dev, "failed to read cell-index for %pOF\n", dev_node);
                err = -EINVAL;
-               goto _return_of_node_put;
+               goto _return_dev_put;
        }
        /* cell-index 0 => FMan id 1 */
        fman_id = (u8)(val + 1);
        if (!priv->fman) {
                dev_err(dev, "fman_bind(%pOF) failed\n", dev_node);
                err = -ENODEV;
-               goto _return_of_node_put;
+               goto _return_dev_put;
        }
 
+       /* Two references have been taken in of_find_device_by_node()
+        * and fman_bind(). Release one of them here. The second one
+        * will be released in mac_remove().
+        */
+       put_device(mac_dev->fman_dev);
        of_node_put(dev_node);
+       dev_node = NULL;
 
        /* Get the address of the memory mapped registers */
        mac_dev->res = platform_get_mem_or_io(_of_dev, 0);
        if (!mac_dev->res) {
                dev_err(dev, "could not get registers\n");
-               return -EINVAL;
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               goto _return_dev_put;
        }
 
        err = devm_request_resource(dev, fman_get_mem_region(priv->fman),
                                    mac_dev->res);
        if (err) {
                dev_err_probe(dev, err, "could not request resource\n");
-               return err;
+               goto _return_dev_put;
        }
 
        mac_dev->vaddr = devm_ioremap(dev, mac_dev->res->start,
                                      resource_size(mac_dev->res));
        if (!mac_dev->vaddr) {
                dev_err(dev, "devm_ioremap() failed\n");
-               return -EIO;
+               err = -EIO;
+               goto _return_dev_put;
        }
 
-       if (!of_device_is_available(mac_node))
-               return -ENODEV;
+       if (!of_device_is_available(mac_node)) {
+               err = -ENODEV;
+               goto _return_dev_put;
+       }
 
        /* Get the cell-index */
        err = of_property_read_u32(mac_node, "cell-index", &val);
        if (err) {
                dev_err(dev, "failed to read cell-index for %pOF\n", mac_node);
-               return -EINVAL;
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               goto _return_dev_put;
        }
        priv->cell_index = (u8)val;
 
        if (unlikely(nph < 0)) {
                dev_err(dev, "of_count_phandle_with_args(%pOF, fsl,fman-ports) failed\n",
                        mac_node);
-               return nph;
+               err = nph;
+               goto _return_dev_put;
        }
 
        if (nph != ARRAY_SIZE(mac_dev->port)) {
                dev_err(dev, "Not supported number of fman-ports handles of mac node %pOF from device tree\n",
                        mac_node);
-               return -EINVAL;
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               goto _return_dev_put;
        }
 
-       for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(mac_dev->port); i++) {
+       /* PORT_NUM determines the size of the port array */
+       for (i = 0; i < PORT_NUM; i++) {
                /* Find the port node */
                dev_node = of_parse_phandle(mac_node, "fsl,fman-ports", i);
                if (!dev_node) {
                        dev_err(dev, "of_parse_phandle(%pOF, fsl,fman-ports) failed\n",
                                mac_node);
-                       return -EINVAL;
+                       err = -EINVAL;
+                       goto _return_dev_arr_put;
                }
 
                of_dev = of_find_device_by_node(dev_node);
                        dev_err(dev, "of_find_device_by_node(%pOF) failed\n",
                                dev_node);
                        err = -EINVAL;
-                       goto _return_of_node_put;
+                       goto _return_dev_arr_put;
                }
                mac_dev->fman_port_devs[i] = &of_dev->dev;
 
                        dev_err(dev, "dev_get_drvdata(%pOF) failed\n",
                                dev_node);
                        err = -EINVAL;
-                       goto _return_of_node_put;
+                       goto _return_dev_arr_put;
                }
+               /* Two references have been taken in of_find_device_by_node()
+                * and fman_port_bind(). Release one of them here. The second
+                * one will be released in mac_remove().
+                */
+               put_device(mac_dev->fman_port_devs[i]);
                of_node_put(dev_node);
+               dev_node = NULL;
        }
 
        /* Get the PHY connection type */
 
        err = init(mac_dev, mac_node, ¶ms);
        if (err < 0)
-               return err;
+               goto _return_dev_arr_put;
 
        if (!is_zero_ether_addr(mac_dev->addr))
                dev_info(dev, "FMan MAC address: %pM\n", mac_dev->addr);
 
        return err;
 
+_return_dev_arr_put:
+       /* mac_dev is kzalloc'ed */
+       for (i = 0; i < PORT_NUM; i++)
+               put_device(mac_dev->fman_port_devs[i]);
+_return_dev_put:
+       put_device(mac_dev->fman_dev);
 _return_of_node_put:
        of_node_put(dev_node);
        return err;
 static void mac_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
        struct mac_device *mac_dev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+       int                i;
+
+       for (i = 0; i < PORT_NUM; i++)
+               put_device(mac_dev->fman_port_devs[i]);
+       put_device(mac_dev->fman_dev);
 
        platform_device_unregister(mac_dev->priv->eth_dev);
 }