From: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Mao Wenan <maowenan@huawei.com>,
Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>,
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>,
Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v3 1/4] net: phy: refuse a second attach before touching the PHY
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:59:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260924215951.2127682-2-f@lex.la> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924215951.2127682-1-f@lex.la>
phy_attach_direct() tests phydev->attached_dev only after it has taken
its references and, for a PHY with no driver, bound the generic one, and
then leaves through the error path that calls phy_detach(). That
phy_detach() works on the PHY's current attachment, so a second attach
of a PHY in use tears down the first consumer: it clears that netdev's
phydev pointer and the PHY's attached_dev, removes the sysfs links,
suspends the PHY and, for the generic driver, unbinds it, while the
first consumer goes on using the PHY.
Found in review of a change that makes phy_detach() put only the
module the attach recorded: with it, this path leaves the first
consumer's reference pinned. On a Keenetic KN-1012, a test module
attaching a second netdev to the EN8811H that the lan4 DSA port holds
got -EBUSY and left lan4 with no PHY; with this change lan4 kept it.
Test attached_dev before anything is taken and return from there.
Fixes: a7dac9f9c169 ("phy: fix error case of phy_led_triggers_(un)register")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
---
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 94b2e85e00a3..7046976c5b6a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -1757,6 +1757,11 @@ int phy_attach_direct(struct net_device *dev, struct phy_device *phydev,
struct module *ndev_owner = NULL;
int err;
+ if (phydev->attached_dev) {
+ phydev_err(phydev, "PHY already attached\n");
+ return -EBUSY;
+ }
+
/* For Ethernet device drivers that register their own MDIO bus, we
* will have bus->owner match ndev_mod, so we do not want to increment
* our own module->refcnt here, otherwise we would not be able to
@@ -1798,12 +1803,6 @@ int phy_attach_direct(struct net_device *dev, struct phy_device *phydev,
goto error_module_put;
}
- if (phydev->attached_dev) {
- dev_err(&dev->dev, "PHY already attached\n");
- err = -EBUSY;
- goto error;
- }
-
phydev->phy_link_change = phy_link_change;
if (dev) {
phydev->attached_dev = dev;
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-24 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-24 21:59 [PATCH net v3 0/4] net: phy: make PHY driver unbind safe against attach and use Aleksei Sviridkin
2026-09-24 21:59 ` Aleksei Sviridkin [this message]
2026-09-24 21:59 ` [PATCH net v3 2/4] net: phy: put the driver module the attach took Aleksei Sviridkin
2026-09-24 21:59 ` [PATCH net v3 3/4] net: phy: serialise attach and detach with PHY driver bind and unbind Aleksei Sviridkin
2026-09-30 0:46 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-24 21:59 ` [PATCH net v3 4/4] net: phy: make an unbind wait for the attached consumer to detach Aleksei Sviridkin
2026-09-30 0:44 ` [PATCH net v3 0/4] net: phy: make PHY driver unbind safe against attach and use Jakub Kicinski
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