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[PATCH net] net: wan: fsl_ucc_hdlc: release HDLC device on remove

From: Myeonghun Pak <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-28 17:15:55
Also in: linuxppc-dev, lkml, stable
Subsystem: freescale quicc engine ucc hdlc driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Zhao Qiang, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

ucc_hdlc_probe() registers an HDLC netdev whose private pointer refers to
the separately allocated ucc_hdlc_private object. The remove path frees
that private object without unregistering or freeing the netdev, leaving
a registered device with a dangling private pointer.

Unregister the HDLC device before releasing hardware resources. This
closes an active interface through ndo_stop, which disables NAPI, stops
the UCC, and frees its IRQ. Then free the netdev before releasing its
private object.

Fixes: c19b6d246a35 ("drivers/net: support hdlc function for QE-UCC")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Co-developed-by: Ijae Kim <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ijae Kim <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Myeonghun Pak <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c b/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
index 809f21fb9..4c843c94c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
@@ -1255,6 +1255,8 @@ static void ucc_hdlc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct ucc_hdlc_private *priv = dev_get_drvdata(&pdev->dev);
 
+	unregister_hdlc_device(priv->ndev);
+
 	uhdlc_memclean(priv);
 
 	if (priv->utdm && priv->utdm->si_regs) {
@@ -1266,6 +1268,7 @@ static void ucc_hdlc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		iounmap(priv->utdm->siram);
 		priv->utdm->siram = NULL;
 	}
+	free_netdev(priv->ndev);
 	kfree(priv);
 
 	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "UCC based hdlc module removed\n");
-- 
2.47.1
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