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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:32:49 +0200 From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com> To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com> Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>, linux-i2c <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, Alvin Šipraga <alsi@...g-olufsen.dk>, Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de> Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Fix mdiobus users with devres On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:42 PM Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com> wrote: > > Commit ac3a68d56651 ("net: phy: don't abuse devres in > devm_mdiobus_register()") by Bartosz Golaszewski has introduced two > classes of potential bugs by making the devres callback of > devm_mdiobus_alloc stop calling mdiobus_unregister. > > The exact buggy circumstances are presented in the individual commit > messages. I have searched the tree for other occurrences, but at the > moment: > > - for issue (a) I have no concrete proof that other buses except SPI and > I2C suffer from it, and the only SPI or I2C device drivers that call > of_mdiobus_alloc are the DSA drivers that leave a NULL > ds->slave_mii_bus and a non-NULL ds->ops->phy_read, aka ksz9477, > ksz8795, lan9303_i2c, vsc73xx-spi. > > - for issue (b), all drivers which call of_mdiobus_alloc either use > of_mdiobus_register too, or call mdiobus_unregister sometime within > the ->remove path. > > Although at this point I've seen enough strangeness caused by this > "device_del during ->shutdown" that I'm just going to copy the SPI and > I2C subsystem maintainers to this patch series, to get their feedback > whether they've had reports about things like this before. I don't think > other buses behave in this way, it forces SPI and I2C devices to have to > protect themselves from a really strange set of issues. > > Vladimir Oltean (2): > net: dsa: don't allocate the slave_mii_bus using devres > net: dsa: realtek: register the MDIO bus under devres > > drivers/net/dsa/realtek-smi-core.c | 2 +- > net/dsa/dsa2.c | 12 +++++++++--- > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.25.1 > Hi Vladimir, Thanks for the detailed description and sorry for the trouble this caused. I will revisit this and go through the drivers using those functions again and possibly come up with some improvement. Acked-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> Bartosz
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