enum devlink_port_flavour flavour;
        struct dsa_switch *ds = dp->ds;
        struct dsa_switch_tree *dst = ds->dst;
-       int err;
+       int err = 0;
 
        if (dp->type == DSA_PORT_TYPE_UNUSED)
                return 0;
                break;
        case DSA_PORT_TYPE_CPU:
                err = dsa_port_link_register_of(dp);
-               if (err) {
+               if (err)
                        dev_err(ds->dev, "failed to setup link for port %d.%d\n",
                                ds->index, dp->index);
-                       return err;
-               }
                break;
        case DSA_PORT_TYPE_DSA:
                err = dsa_port_link_register_of(dp);
-               if (err) {
+               if (err)
                        dev_err(ds->dev, "failed to setup link for port %d.%d\n",
                                ds->index, dp->index);
-                       return err;
-               }
                break;
        case DSA_PORT_TYPE_USER:
                err = dsa_slave_create(dp);
                break;
        }
 
-       return 0;
+       if (err)
+               devlink_port_unregister(&dp->devlink_port);
+
+       return err;
 }
 
 static void dsa_port_teardown(struct dsa_port *dp)
 
 static int dsa_switch_setup(struct dsa_switch *ds)
 {
-       int err;
+       int err = 0;
 
        /* Initialize ds->phys_mii_mask before registering the slave MDIO bus
         * driver and before ops->setup() has run, since the switch drivers and
 
        err = devlink_register(ds->devlink, ds->dev);
        if (err)
-               return err;
+               goto free_devlink;
 
        err = dsa_switch_register_notifier(ds);
        if (err)
-               return err;
+               goto unregister_devlink;
 
        err = ds->ops->setup(ds);
        if (err < 0)
-               return err;
+               goto unregister_notifier;
 
        if (!ds->slave_mii_bus && ds->ops->phy_read) {
                ds->slave_mii_bus = devm_mdiobus_alloc(ds->dev);
-               if (!ds->slave_mii_bus)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
+               if (!ds->slave_mii_bus) {
+                       err = -ENOMEM;
+                       goto unregister_notifier;
+               }
 
                dsa_slave_mii_bus_init(ds);
 
                err = mdiobus_register(ds->slave_mii_bus);
                if (err < 0)
-                       return err;
+                       goto unregister_notifier;
        }
 
        return 0;
+
+unregister_notifier:
+       dsa_switch_unregister_notifier(ds);
+unregister_devlink:
+       devlink_unregister(ds->devlink);
+free_devlink:
+       devlink_free(ds->devlink);
+       ds->devlink = NULL;
+
+       return err;
 }
 
 static void dsa_switch_teardown(struct dsa_switch *ds)
 {
        struct dsa_switch *ds;
        struct dsa_port *dp;
-       int device, port;
-       int err;
+       int device, port, i;
+       int err = 0;
 
        for (device = 0; device < DSA_MAX_SWITCHES; device++) {
                ds = dst->ds[device];
 
                err = dsa_switch_setup(ds);
                if (err)
-                       return err;
+                       goto switch_teardown;
 
                for (port = 0; port < ds->num_ports; port++) {
                        dp = &ds->ports[port];
 
                        err = dsa_port_setup(dp);
                        if (err)
-                               return err;
+                               goto ports_teardown;
                }
        }
 
        return 0;
+
+ports_teardown:
+       for (i = 0; i < port; i++)
+               dsa_port_teardown(&ds->ports[i]);
+
+       dsa_switch_teardown(ds);
+
+switch_teardown:
+       for (i = 0; i < device; i++) {
+               ds = dst->ds[i];
+               if (!ds)
+                       continue;
+
+               for (port = 0; port < ds->num_ports; port++) {
+                       dp = &ds->ports[port];
+
+                       dsa_port_teardown(dp);
+               }
+
+               dsa_switch_teardown(ds);
+       }
+
+       return err;
 }
 
 static void dsa_tree_teardown_switches(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst)
 
        err = dsa_tree_setup_switches(dst);
        if (err)
-               return err;
+               goto teardown_default_cpu;
 
        err = dsa_tree_setup_master(dst);
        if (err)
-               return err;
+               goto teardown_switches;
 
        dst->setup = true;
 
        pr_info("DSA: tree %d setup\n", dst->index);
 
        return 0;
+
+teardown_switches:
+       dsa_tree_teardown_switches(dst);
+teardown_default_cpu:
+       dsa_tree_teardown_default_cpu(dst);
+
+       return err;
 }
 
 static void dsa_tree_teardown(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst)
        dst->ds[index] = ds;
 
        err = dsa_tree_setup(dst);
-       if (err)
-               dsa_tree_remove_switch(dst, index);
+       if (err) {
+               dst->ds[index] = NULL;
+               dsa_tree_put(dst);
+       }
 
        return err;
 }