[PATCH net] net: phylink: put link_gpio if phylink_create fails
From: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-07-26 15:08:25
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ethernet phy library, networking drivers, sff/sfp/sfp+ module support, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, Heiner Kallweit, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Russell King, Linus Torvalds
In phylink_create() if phylink_register_sfp() returns an error, link_gpio
obtained by phylink_parse_fixedlink() is never released. While this is a
very unlikely scenario, it's worth to fix/handle this.
This was present from the very first implementation of phylink but got
relevant only with the introduction of ce0aa27ff3f6 ("sfp: add sfp-bus to
bridge between network devices and sfp cages") where additional function
were added after phylink_parse_fixedlink() making the release of link_gpio
needed if such additional function errored out.
While at it, restructure the exit condition of phylink_create() with the
goto pattern to reduce code duplication on handling error conditions.
Fixes: ce0aa27ff3f6 ("sfp: add sfp-bus to bridge between network devices and sfp cages")
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 29 +++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
index 59dfe35afa54..f40acc0d4133 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c@@ -1874,8 +1874,8 @@ struct phylink *phylink_create(struct phylink_config *config, } else if (config->type == PHYLINK_DEV) { pl->dev = config->dev; } else { - kfree(pl); - return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + ret = -EINVAL; + goto free_pl; } pl->mac_supports_eee_ops = phylink_mac_implements_lpi(mac_ops);
@@ -1908,28 +1908,29 @@ struct phylink *phylink_create(struct phylink_config *config, phylink_validate(pl, pl->supported, &pl->link_config); ret = phylink_parse_mode(pl, fwnode); - if (ret < 0) { - kfree(pl); - return ERR_PTR(ret); - } + if (ret < 0) + goto free_pl; if (pl->cfg_link_an_mode == MLO_AN_FIXED) { ret = phylink_parse_fixedlink(pl, fwnode); - if (ret < 0) { - kfree(pl); - return ERR_PTR(ret); - } + if (ret < 0) + goto release_link_gpio; } pl->req_link_an_mode = pl->cfg_link_an_mode; ret = phylink_register_sfp(pl, fwnode); - if (ret < 0) { - kfree(pl); - return ERR_PTR(ret); - } + if (ret < 0) + goto release_link_gpio; return pl; + +release_link_gpio: + if (pl->link_gpio) + gpiod_put(pl->link_gpio); +free_pl: + kfree(pl); + return ERR_PTR(ret); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(phylink_create);
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