From: Florian Fainelli Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 03:43:09 +0000 (-0700) Subject: net: phy: Avoid NPD upon phy_detach() when driver is unbound X-Git-Tag: v5.4.68~6 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94f2dc7ad055199e569979f24ef4d5a555d06065;p=users%2Fdwmw2%2Flinux.git net: phy: Avoid NPD upon phy_detach() when driver is unbound [ Upstream commit c2b727df7caa33876e7066bde090f40001b6d643 ] If we have unbound the PHY driver prior to calling phy_detach() (often via phy_disconnect()) then we can cause a NULL pointer de-reference accessing the driver owner member. The steps to reproduce are: echo unimac-mdio-0:01 > /sys/class/net/eth0/phydev/driver/unbind ip link set eth0 down Fixes: cafe8df8b9bc ("net: phy: Fix lack of reference count on PHY driver") Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c index 110924d627449..9d0a306f05623 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c @@ -1421,7 +1421,8 @@ void phy_detach(struct phy_device *phydev) phy_led_triggers_unregister(phydev); - module_put(phydev->mdio.dev.driver->owner); + if (phydev->mdio.dev.driver) + module_put(phydev->mdio.dev.driver->owner); /* If the device had no specific driver before (i.e. - it * was using the generic driver), we unbind the device