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From: Petr Wozniak <petr.wozniak@gmail.com>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-phy@lists.infradead.org,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
	Bjorn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>, Aleksander Bajkowski <olek2@wp.pl>,
	Marek Behun <kabel@kernel.org>,
	Petr Wozniak <petr.wozniak@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v4 1/2] net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:48:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260624084814.20972-2-petr.wozniak@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260624084814.20972-1-petr.wozniak@gmail.com>

sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create() allocates the I2C MDIO bus with mdio_i2c_alloc(),
a plain (non-devm) allocation, and registers it. sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy()
only unregisters the bus and clears sfp->i2c_mii without calling
mdiobus_free(). As the only reference to the bus is then cleared, the
struct mii_bus is leaked.

This is hit whenever a copper/RollBall SFP module that instantiated an MDIO
bus is removed: sfp_sm_main() takes the global teardown path and calls
sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy(). sfp_cleanup(), on driver unbind, frees
sfp->i2c_mii directly, which is why the leak only triggered on module
hot-removal and not on unbind.

Free the bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy() to match the allocation done in
sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create().

Fixes: e85b1347ace6 ("net: sfp: create/destroy I2C mdiobus before PHY probe/after PHY release")
Signed-off-by: Petr Wozniak <petr.wozniak@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/sfp.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
index 03bfd8640db9..c4d274ab651e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
@@ -963,6 +963,7 @@ static int sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create(struct sfp *sfp)
 static void sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy(struct sfp *sfp)
 {
 	mdiobus_unregister(sfp->i2c_mii);
+	mdiobus_free(sfp->i2c_mii);
 	sfp->i2c_mii = NULL;
 }
 
-- 
2.51.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-06-24  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-24  8:48 [PATCH net v4 0/2] net: phy: sfp/mdio-i2c: defer RollBall probe + fix mii_bus leak Petr Wozniak
2026-06-24  8:48 ` Petr Wozniak [this message]
2026-06-24  8:48 ` [PATCH net v4 2/2] net: phy: mdio-i2c: defer RollBall bridge probe to PHY discovery Petr Wozniak
2026-06-24 21:44   ` Aleksander Jan Bajkowski

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