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authorDavid Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>2026-05-09 22:50:46 +0100
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-05-12 17:45:12 -0700
commite3adf69f8eb121a9128c2b0029efd050d3649153 (patch)
treedadebcb32307969bdb656452efb986db8c85c705 /net
parent2c308cf34284420963607d677d576a2b4124d8bd (diff)
net: ethtool: phy: avoid NULL deref when PHY driver is unbound
phydev->drv can become NULL while the phy_device is still attached to its net_device, namely after the PHY driver is unbound via sysfs: echo <mdio_id> > /sys/bus/mdio_bus/drivers/<phy_drv>/unbind phy_remove() clears phydev->drv but doesn't call phy_detach(), so the phy_device stays in the link topology xarray and ethnl_req_get_phydev() still hands it back. ETHTOOL_MSG_PHY_GET then oopses on: rep_data->drvname = kstrdup(phydev->drv->name, GFP_KERNEL); drvname is already treated as optional by phy_reply_size(), phy_fill_reply() and phy_cleanup_data(), so just skip the allocation when there is no driver bound. Fixes: 9dd2ad5e92b9 ("net: ethtool: phy: Convert the PHY_GET command to generic phy dump") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.13.x Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Tested-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260509215046.107157-1-devnexen@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ethtool/phy.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ethtool/phy.c b/net/ethtool/phy.c
index f76d94d848d6..ddc6eab701ed 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/phy.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/phy.c
@@ -94,10 +94,12 @@ static int phy_prepare_data(const struct ethnl_req_info *req_info,
if (!rep_data->name)
return -ENOMEM;
- rep_data->drvname = kstrdup(phydev->drv->name, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!rep_data->drvname) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto err_free_name;
+ if (phydev->drv) {
+ rep_data->drvname = kstrdup(phydev->drv->name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!rep_data->drvname) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_free_name;
+ }
}
rep_data->upstream_type = pdn->upstream_type;