From: Vineeth Karumanchi <vineeth.karumanchi@amd.com>
To: <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>, <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
<andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<edumazet@google.com>, <kuba@kernel.org>, <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: <vineeth.karumanchi@amd.com>, <git@amd.com>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: macb: fix NULL pointer dereference on unbind with fixed-link
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 15:58:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260902102836.2019355-1-vineeth.karumanchi@amd.com> (raw)
When the device tree describes a fixed-link and has no "mdio" child
node, macb_mii_init() returns early without allocating the MDIO bus,
leaving bp->mii_bus as NULL.
Two cleanup paths then dereference this NULL bus:
1. On driver unbind, macb_remove() unconditionally calls
mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus), which oopses:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000004a8
pc : mdiobus_unregister+0x14/0xa4
lr : macb_remove+0x38/0xa4
Call trace:
mdiobus_unregister+0x14/0xa4 (P)
macb_remove+0x38/0xa4
platform_remove+0x20/0x30
device_release_driver_internal+0x1c8/0x224
unbind_store+0xb4/0xbc
2. On the probe error path in macb_probe(), reached when
macb_mii_init() has succeeded but a subsequent step fails, the
err_out_unregister_mdio label runs the same unconditional cleanup.
mdiobus_unregister() and mdiobus_free() do not guard against a NULL
bus, so guard the calls in both macb_remove() and the probe error
path.
Fixes: d0c3601f2c4e ("net: macb: Avoid 20s boot delay by skipping MDIO bus registration for fixed-link PHY")
Signed-off-by: Vineeth Karumanchi <vineeth.karumanchi@amd.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index 76ee4f506033..88eebe187eac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
@@ -5971,8 +5971,10 @@ static int macb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
macb_free_tieoff(bp);
err_out_unregister_mdio:
- mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
- mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
+ if (bp->mii_bus) {
+ mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
+ mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
+ }
err_out_phy_exit:
phy_exit(bp->phy);
@@ -6001,8 +6003,10 @@ static void macb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
unregister_netdev(netdev);
macb_free_tieoff(bp);
phy_exit(bp->phy);
- mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
- mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
+ if (bp->mii_bus) {
+ mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
+ mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
+ }
device_set_wakeup_enable(&bp->pdev->dev, 0);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&bp->tx_lpi_work);
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-02 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-02 10:28 Vineeth Karumanchi [this message]
2026-09-03 2:17 ` Xuanqiang Luo
2026-09-03 7:23 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-09-03 8:28 ` Théo Lebrun
2026-09-03 8:27 ` Théo Lebrun
2026-09-03 9:37 ` Karumanchi, Vineeth
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