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Commit baf45047 authored by Vladimir Oltean's avatar Vladimir Oltean Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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net: dsa: destroy the phylink instance on any error in dsa_slave_phy_setup



commit 6a52e733 upstream.

DSA supports connecting to a phy-handle, and has a fallback to a non-OF
based method of connecting to an internal PHY on the switch's own MDIO
bus, if no phy-handle and no fixed-link nodes were present.

The -ENODEV error code from the first attempt (phylink_of_phy_connect)
is what triggers the second attempt (phylink_connect_phy).

However, when the first attempt returns a different error code than
-ENODEV, this results in an unbalance of calls to phylink_create and
phylink_destroy by the time we exit the function. The phylink instance
has leaked.

There are many other error codes that can be returned by
phylink_of_phy_connect. For example, phylink_validate returns -EINVAL.
So this is a practical issue too.

Fixes: aab9c406 ("net: dsa: Plug in PHYLINK support")
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914134331.2303380-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 498e765b
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