net: mvneta: bm: fix device reference leak on failed lookup

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Make sure to drop the reference taken to the buffer manager device when
attempting to look up its driver data before the driver has been bound.

Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver
data from going away.

Cc: stable+noautosel@kernel.org # untested fix to unlikely error path
Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709082713.829446-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c

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