netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: Fix lack of reference count on PHY driver

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Date:   Thu, 2 Feb 2017 19:47:43 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk,
        maowenan@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: Fix lack of reference count on PHY driver

Le 02/02/17 à 18:54, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:46:43 -0800
> 
>> From: Mao Wenan <maowenan@...wei.com>
>>
>> There is currently no reference count being held on the PHY driver,
>> which makes it possible to remove the PHY driver module while the PHY
>> state machine is running and polling the PHY. This could cause crashes
>> similar to this one to show up:
>  ...
>> Keep references on the PHY driver module right before we are going to
>> utilize it in phy_attach_direct(), and conversely when we don't use it
>> anymore in phy_detach().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mao Wenan <maowenan@...wei.com>
>> [florian: rebase, rework commit message]
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> 
> I think grabbing the module reference is the only easy fix we
> can do for now.
> 
> Hot plugging PHYs and notifications and all of that business is
> net-next material.
> 
> Florian, do you need to respin this with the workqueue or whatever
> suggestion Russell made?

That seems to deserve a separate fix of its own it seems, because it
becomes tangential to this particular problem.
-- 
Florian