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From: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, hkallweit1@gmail.com,
	linux@armlinux.org.uk, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
	kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org,
	olteanv@gmail.com, Thangaraj.S@microchip.com,
	UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, steve.glendinning@shawell.net,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Subject: [PATCH net v8 4/4] net: phy: restore the interrupt when the generic bind cycle fails
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:50:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918015029.2518425-5-f@lex.la> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260918015029.2518425-1-f@lex.la>

phy_attach_direct() binds the generic driver by hand, and the probe it
calls is phy_probe(), which replaces phydev->irq with PHY_POLL before
either of the points it can fail at. That failure unwinds on a label of
its own, which does not go through phy_detach(), so the substitution
outlives a bind cycle that never completed and a later attach finds a
PHY that can only be polled.

Take the number back on that label as well, before it clears d->driver.
That store is what reopens the device to the driver core: until it runs,
a driver registering on another CPU is turned away with -EBUSY and
phy_probe() cannot be the second writer of this field.

Fixes: 6d9f66ac7fec ("net: phy: Fix PHY module checks and NULL deref in phy_attach_direct()")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
---

Notes:
    Both points the hand-bind can fail at are reachable. phy_probe() reaches
    genphy_read_abilities() through genphy_driver's .get_features, and that
    returns the error from phy_read(phydev, MII_BMSR); device_bind_driver()
    returns whatever driver_sysfs_add() got from sysfs_create_link().
    
    A failed genphy bind leaves the device with no driver bound at all, so the
    next driver to arrive binds directly and never goes through phy_detach().
    That is why patch 3 cannot cover this path, and why the Fixes: tag here is
    6d9f66ac7fec rather than the one patch 3 carries. That commit did not
    introduce the lost number - the substitution is far older - it created this
    second exit from the bind cycle, splitting the failure off the label that
    calls phy_detach(). Before it, patch 3 alone would have covered this, so
    that is where the backport range for this one starts.
    
    Exercised on the board described in patch 3, with a debug-only module
    parameter that fails the hand-bound generic probe once for one MDIO
    address. The connect then ends in -EIO rather than the -EINVAL of the
    validation path, so the unwind takes the label this patch touches.
    phydev->irq afterwards reads -1 with patch 3 alone and 15 with this one.
    
    One difference between the injector and a real failure, since it does not
    affect what was measured but should not be implied away: a genuine error
    inside phy_probe() leaves through its out: label, which re-asserts the PHY
    reset before returning, while the injector returns earlier than that.
    Neither path touches phydev->irq.

 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 8e6b399f95d6..69d8911ea7f6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -1896,6 +1896,8 @@ int phy_attach_direct(struct net_device *dev, struct phy_device *phydev,
 
 error_module_put:
 	module_put(d->driver->owner);
+	/* Before the NULL below, which lets another probe reach this field. */
+	phydev->irq = bus->irq[phydev->mdio.addr];
 	phydev->is_genphy_driven = 0;
 	d->driver = NULL;
 error_put_device:
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-18  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-18  1:50 [PATCH net v8 0/4] net: phy: keep a PHY interrupt across a generic bind cycle Aleksei Sviridkin
2026-09-18  1:50 ` [PATCH net v8 1/4] net: usb: lan78xx: register the PHY interrupt with the MDIO bus Aleksei Sviridkin
2026-09-18  2:04   ` Andrew Lunn
2026-09-18  8:20     ` Aleksei Sviridkin
2026-09-22  2:28   ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-18  1:50 ` [PATCH net v8 2/4] net: usb: smsc95xx: " Aleksei Sviridkin
2026-09-18  2:05   ` Andrew Lunn
2026-09-18  8:20     ` Aleksei Sviridkin
2026-09-18  1:50 ` [PATCH net v8 3/4] net: phy: take the interrupt back from the bus on detach Aleksei Sviridkin
2026-09-22  2:28   ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-18  1:50 ` Aleksei Sviridkin [this message]
2026-09-22  2:28   ` [PATCH net v8 4/4] net: phy: restore the interrupt when the generic bind cycle fails netdev-bot+sashiko

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