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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Hans-Frieder Vogt <hfdevel@gmx.net>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: tn40xx: fix swnode use-after-free on probe failure
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:00:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110100051.2567443-1-johan@kernel.org> (raw)

The mdiobus allocated by tn40_mdiobus_init() has no primary firmware
node so its firmware node pointer points to the secondary software node
added by device_add_software_node() and whose reference is released by
device_remove_software_node().

Drop the stray firmware node reference decrement on probe failure and
driver unbind which leads to a use-after-free when deregistering the
software node group as the parent MDIO node has been freed before the
child PHY node.

Fixes: 25b6a6d29d40 ("net: tn40xx: create swnode for mdio and aqr105 phy and add to mdiobus")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 6.15
Cc: Hans-Frieder Vogt <hfdevel@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/tehuti/tn40_mdio.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/tehuti/tn40_mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/tehuti/tn40_mdio.c
index fb1a4a2e4dbc..49951477ac05 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/tehuti/tn40_mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/tehuti/tn40_mdio.c
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ void tn40_swnodes_cleanup(struct tn40_priv *priv)
 {
 	/* cleanup of swnodes is only needed for AQR105-based cards */
 	if (priv->pdev->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_TEHUTI_TN9510) {
-		fwnode_handle_put(dev_fwnode(&priv->mdio->dev));
 		device_remove_software_node(&priv->mdio->dev);
 		software_node_unregister_node_group(priv->nodes.group);
 	}
-- 
2.56.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-11-10 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-10 10:00 Johan Hovold [this message]
2026-11-10 10:06 ` [PATCH net] net: tn40xx: fix swnode use-after-free on probe failure netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-11-10 10:12   ` Johan Hovold

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