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From: "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
To: "Nicolai Buchwitz" <nb@tipi-net.de>,
	"Vineeth Karumanchi" <vineeth.karumanchi@amd.com>
Cc: <conor.dooley@microchip.com>, <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	<davem@davemloft.net>, <edumazet@google.com>, <kuba@kernel.org>,
	<pabeni@redhat.com>, <git@amd.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: macb: fix NULL pointer dereference on unbind with fixed-link
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:28:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DL5JFDSQECL6.1CH7S2Z56QSVA@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <febc4b0932422a2e67f64599dd520e0d@tipi-net.de>

Hi Nicolai,

On Thu Sep 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM CEST, Nicolai Buchwitz wrote:
> On 2.9.2026 12:28, Vineeth Karumanchi wrote:
>> @@ -5971,8 +5971,10 @@ static int macb_probe(struct platform_device 
>> *pdev)
>>  	macb_free_tieoff(bp);
>> 
>>  err_out_unregister_mdio:
>> -	mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
>> -	mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
>> +	if (bp->mii_bus) {
>> +		mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
>> +		mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
>> +	}
>> 
>>  err_out_phy_exit:
>>  	phy_exit(bp->phy);
>> @@ -6001,8 +6003,10 @@ static void macb_remove(struct platform_device 
>> *pdev)
>>  		unregister_netdev(netdev);
>>  		macb_free_tieoff(bp);
>>  		phy_exit(bp->phy);
>> -		mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
>> -		mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
>> +		if (bp->mii_bus) {
>> +			mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
>> +			mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
>> +		}
>
> nit: replica of the code from above, but also not really worth a helper?

Agreed that the helper is overblown!

Thanks,

--
Théo Lebrun, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-03  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-02 10:28 [PATCH net] net: macb: fix NULL pointer dereference on unbind with fixed-link Vineeth Karumanchi
2026-09-03  2:17 ` Xuanqiang Luo
2026-09-03  7:23 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-09-03  8:28   ` Théo Lebrun [this message]
2026-09-03  8:27 ` Théo Lebrun
2026-09-03  9:37   ` Karumanchi, Vineeth

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