linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 38/43] net: phy: Avoid NPD upon phy

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Message-Id: <20200925124729.312028519@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:48:50 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 38/43] net: phy: Avoid NPD upon phy_detach() when driver is unbound

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

[ 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 <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -1421,7 +1421,8 @@ void phy_detach(struct phy_device *phyde
 
 	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