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commit 6a52e73 upstream.

DSA supports connecting to a phy-handle, and has a fallback to a non-OF
based method of connecting to an internal PHY on the switch's own MDIO
bus, if no phy-handle and no fixed-link nodes were present.

The -ENODEV error code from the first attempt (phylink_of_phy_connect)
is what triggers the second attempt (phylink_connect_phy).

However, when the first attempt returns a different error code than
-ENODEV, this results in an unbalance of calls to phylink_create and
phylink_destroy by the time we exit the function. The phylink instance
has leaked.

There are many other error codes that can be returned by
phylink_of_phy_connect. For example, phylink_validate returns -EINVAL.
So this is a practical issue too.

Fixes: aab9c40 ("net: dsa: Plug in PHYLINK support")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914134331.2303380-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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vladimiroltean authored and gregkh committed Sep 22, 2021
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12 changes: 5 additions & 7 deletions net/dsa/slave.c
Expand Up @@ -1784,13 +1784,11 @@ static int dsa_slave_phy_setup(struct net_device *slave_dev)
* use the switch internal MDIO bus instead
*/
ret = dsa_slave_phy_connect(slave_dev, dp->index, phy_flags);
if (ret) {
netdev_err(slave_dev,
"failed to connect to port %d: %d\n",
dp->index, ret);
phylink_destroy(dp->pl);
return ret;
}
}
if (ret) {
netdev_err(slave_dev, "failed to connect to PHY: %pe\n",
ERR_PTR(ret));
phylink_destroy(dp->pl);
}

return ret;
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