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From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: ethtool: phy: avoid NULL deref when PHY driver is unbound
Date: Sat,  9 May 2026 22:50:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260509215046.107157-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)

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>
---
 net/ethtool/phy.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file 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;
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-09 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-09 21:50 David Carlier [this message]
2026-05-12  6:59 ` [PATCH net] net: ethtool: phy: avoid NULL deref when PHY driver is unbound Maxime Chevallier
2026-05-13  3:45 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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