[PATCH net-next v4 2/4] net: phy: put the driver module the attach took
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From: Aleksei Sviridkin <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-01 13:01:35
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Subsystem:
ethernet phy library, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, Heiner Kallweit, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Revision v4 of 2 in this series.
Revisions (2)
- v3 [diff vs current]
- v4 current
phy_attach_direct() pins the PHY driver module through d->driver, and
phy_detach() releases it by reading d->driver again. Unbinding the PHY
driver while the PHY is attached clears that pointer, so a detach that
runs while the driver is still unbound skips the put and the module can
no longer be unloaded; if a different driver binds in between, the put
lands on a module that was never pinned. The NULL test added by
commit c2b727df7caa ("net: phy: Avoid NPD upon phy_detach() when driver
is unbound") avoids the oops but skips the put.
Found by reading phy_detach() while chasing a PHY driver unbind race on
a Keenetic KN-1012 (MT7981, air_en8811h built as a module). The leak
itself was not observed there: unbinding air_en8811h under the attached
lan4 DSA port and then unbinding the switch faults earlier on that
board, in phy_free_interrupt() or under phy_stop(), before
phy_detach() gets to the put.
Remember which module was pinned and release that one.
Fixes: cafe8df8b9bc ("net: phy: Fix lack of reference count on PHY driver")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <redacted>
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Changes in v4:
- Rebased on net-next. The put is now in phy_detach_internal().
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 8 +++++---
include/linux/phy.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 0bdd2dc84d81..b5074599c988 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c@@ -1728,8 +1728,8 @@ static void phy_detach_internal(struct phy_device *phydev, bool notify_bus) phydev->phy_link_change = NULL; phydev->phylink = NULL; - if (phydev->mdio.dev.driver) - module_put(phydev->mdio.dev.driver->owner); + module_put(phydev->drv_owner); + phydev->drv_owner = NULL; /* If the device had no specific driver before (i.e. - it * was using the generic driver), we unbind the device
@@ -1831,6 +1831,7 @@ int phy_attach_direct(struct net_device *dev, struct phy_device *phydev, err = -EIO; goto error_put_device; } + phydev->drv_owner = d->driver->owner; if (phydev->is_genphy_driven) { err = d->driver->probe(d);
@@ -1938,7 +1939,8 @@ int phy_attach_direct(struct net_device *dev, struct phy_device *phydev, return err; error_module_put: - module_put(d->driver->owner); + module_put(phydev->drv_owner); + phydev->drv_owner = NULL; phydev->is_genphy_driven = 0; d->driver = NULL; error_put_device:
diff --git a/include/linux/phy.h b/include/linux/phy.h
index 7c5098a0dd6c..a5a419bc400e 100644
--- a/include/linux/phy.h
+++ b/include/linux/phy.h@@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ struct phy_oatc14_sqi_capability { * * @mdio: MDIO bus this PHY is on * @drv: Pointer to the driver for this PHY instance + * @drv_owner: Driver module phy_attach_direct() took a reference on * @devlink: Create a link between phy dev and mac dev, if the external phy * used by current mac interface is managed by another mac interface. * @phyindex: Unique id across the phy's parent tree of phys to address the PHY
@@ -689,6 +690,7 @@ struct phy_device { /* Information about the PHY type */ /* And management functions */ const struct phy_driver *drv; + struct module *drv_owner; struct device_link *devlink;
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