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[PATCH v2 2/7] net: fec: manage the netdev lifetime with devres

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From: Jiale Yao <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-27 14:49:17
Also in: imx, lkml, stable
Subsystem: freescale imx / mxc fec driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Wei Fang, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Revision v2 of 3 in this series.

Revisions (3)
  1. v1 [diff vs current]
  2. v2 current
  3. v3 [diff vs current]
fec_drv_remove() frees the netdev before devres releases the managed
IRQs whose handlers use it as their data pointer. A late interrupt can
therefore access the freed netdev.

Allocate the netdev with devres so that the later IRQ registrations are
released first during teardown.

Fixes: 0d9b2ab1c376 ("fec: Use devm_request_irq()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiale Yao <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
index 794ec427b0ee..23e794a31ce8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
@@ -5219,8 +5219,9 @@ fec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	fec_enet_get_queue_num(pdev, &num_tx_qs, &num_rx_qs);
 
 	/* Init network device */
-	ndev = alloc_etherdev_mqs(sizeof(struct fec_enet_private) +
-				  FEC_STATS_SIZE, num_tx_qs, num_rx_qs);
+	ndev = devm_alloc_etherdev_mqs(&pdev->dev,
+				       sizeof(struct fec_enet_private) +
+				       FEC_STATS_SIZE, num_tx_qs, num_rx_qs);
 	if (!ndev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -5480,8 +5481,6 @@ fec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 failed_phy:
 	dev_id--;
 failed_ioremap:
-	free_netdev(ndev);
-
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -5522,7 +5521,6 @@ fec_drv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
 
 	fec_enet_deinit(ndev);
-	free_netdev(ndev);
 }
 
 static int fec_suspend(struct device *dev)
-- 
2.34.1
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