netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime

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Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 23:41:20 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Fang <wei.fang@....com>, Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@....com>,
	Clark Wang <xiaoning.wang@....com>,
	NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>,
	Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime_get() failing in
 .remove()

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 10:00:20PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> In the (unlikely) event that pm_runtime_get() (disguised as
> pm_runtime_resume_and_get()) fails, the remove callback returned an
> error early. The problem with this is that the driver core ignores the
> error value and continues removing the device. This results in a
> resource leak. Worse the devm allocated resources are freed and so if a
> callback of the driver is called later the register mapping is already
> gone which probably results in a crash.
> 
> Fixes: a31eda65ba21 ("net: fec: fix clock count mis-match")
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew