From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
To: Petr Wozniak <petr.wozniak@gmail.com>,
linux@armlinux.org.uk, andrew@lunn.ch, hkallweit1@gmail.com
Cc: kuba@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-phy@lists.infradead.org,
bjorn@mork.no, olek2@wp.pl, kabel@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:23:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <376a850a-dabe-421a-b227-9b612056583f@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260623080538.7646-2-petr.wozniak@gmail.com>
On 6/23/26 10:05, Petr Wozniak wrote:
> 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.
which is worse, this can happen many times in a row :)
>
> 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>
With this patch sent towards the -net tree,
Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Maxime
> ---
> 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;
> }
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-23 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-23 8:05 [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] net: phy: sfp/mdio-i2c: defer RollBall probe + fix mii_bus leak Petr Wozniak
2026-06-23 8:05 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy Petr Wozniak
2026-06-23 16:23 ` Maxime Chevallier [this message]
2026-06-23 8:05 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: phy: mdio-i2c: defer RollBall bridge probe to PHY discovery Petr Wozniak
2026-06-23 16:28 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-23 16:34 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] net: phy: sfp/mdio-i2c: defer RollBall probe + fix mii_bus leak Maxime Chevallier
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