From: Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
commit 6a52e73368038f47f6618623d75061dc263b26ae upstream.
DSA supports connecting to a phy-handle, and has a fallback to a non-OF based method of connecting to an internal PHY on the switch's own MDIO bus, if no phy-handle and no fixed-link nodes were present.
The -ENODEV error code from the first attempt (phylink_of_phy_connect) is what triggers the second attempt (phylink_connect_phy).
However, when the first attempt returns a different error code than -ENODEV, this results in an unbalance of calls to phylink_create and phylink_destroy by the time we exit the function. The phylink instance has leaked.
There are many other error codes that can be returned by phylink_of_phy_connect. For example, phylink_validate returns -EINVAL. So this is a practical issue too.
Fixes: aab9c4067d23 ("net: dsa: Plug in PHYLINK support") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914134331.2303380-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/dsa/slave.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/net/dsa/slave.c +++ b/net/dsa/slave.c @@ -1327,13 +1327,11 @@ static int dsa_slave_phy_setup(struct ne * use the switch internal MDIO bus instead */ ret = dsa_slave_phy_connect(slave_dev, dp->index); - if (ret) { - netdev_err(slave_dev, - "failed to connect to port %d: %d\n", - dp->index, ret); - phylink_destroy(dp->pl); - return ret; - } + } + if (ret) { + netdev_err(slave_dev, "failed to connect to PHY: %pe\n", + ERR_PTR(ret)); + phylink_destroy(dp->pl); }
return ret;