netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/7] net: dsa: ar9331: register the mdiobus under devres

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Message-ID: <20220208072024.GB18325@pengutronix.de>
Date:   Tue, 8 Feb 2022 08:20:24 +0100
From:   Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Landen Chao <Landen.Chao@...iatek.com>,
        DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@....com>,
        Rafael Richter <rafael.richter@....de>,
        Daniel Klauer <daniel.klauer@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/7] net: dsa: ar9331: register the mdiobus under
 devres

On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 06:15:48PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> As explained in commits:
> 74b6d7d13307 ("net: dsa: realtek: register the MDIO bus under devres")
> 5135e96a3dd2 ("net: dsa: don't allocate the slave_mii_bus using devres")
> 
> mdiobus_free() will panic when called from devm_mdiobus_free() <-
> devres_release_all() <- __device_release_driver(), and that mdiobus was
> not previously unregistered.
> 
> The ar9331 is an MDIO device, so the initial set of constraints that I
> thought would cause this (I2C or SPI buses which call ->remove on
> ->shutdown) do not apply. But there is one more which applies here.
> 
> If the DSA master itself is on a bus that calls ->remove from ->shutdown
> (like dpaa2-eth, which is on the fsl-mc bus), there is a device link
> between the switch and the DSA master, and device_links_unbind_consumers()
> will unbind the ar9331 switch driver on shutdown.
> 
> So the same treatment must be applied to all DSA switch drivers, which
> is: either use devres for both the mdiobus allocation and registration,
> or don't use devres at all.
> 
> The ar9331 driver doesn't have a complex code structure for mdiobus
> removal, so just replace of_mdiobus_register with the devres variant in
> order to be all-devres and ensure that we don't free a still-registered
> bus.
> 
> Fixes: ac3a68d56651 ("net: phy: don't abuse devres in devm_mdiobus_register()")
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Tested-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>

Thank you!

> ---
>  drivers/net/dsa/qca/ar9331.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/ar9331.c b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/ar9331.c
> index 3bda7015f0c1..e5098cfe44bc 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/ar9331.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/ar9331.c
> @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static int ar9331_sw_mbus_init(struct ar9331_sw_priv *priv)
>  	if (!mnp)
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
> -	ret = of_mdiobus_register(mbus, mnp);
> +	ret = devm_of_mdiobus_register(dev, mbus, mnp);
>  	of_node_put(mnp);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
> @@ -1066,7 +1066,6 @@ static void ar9331_sw_remove(struct mdio_device *mdiodev)
>  	}
>  
>  	irq_domain_remove(priv->irqdomain);
> -	mdiobus_unregister(priv->mbus);
>  	dsa_unregister_switch(&priv->ds);
>  
>  	reset_control_assert(priv->sw_reset);
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 
> 

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