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If we have unbound the PHY driver prior to calling phy_detach() (often
via phy_disconnect()) then we can cause a NULL pointer de-reference
accessing the driver owner member. The steps to reproduce are:
echo unimac-mdio-0:01 > /sys/class/net/eth0/phydev/driver/unbind
ip link set eth0 down
Fixes:
cafe8df8b9bc ("net: phy: Fix lack of reference count on PHY driver")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
phydev->attached_dev = NULL;
phy_suspend(phydev);
- module_put(phydev->mdio.dev.driver->owner);
+ if (phydev->mdio.dev.driver)
+ module_put(phydev->mdio.dev.driver->owner);
/* If the device had no specific driver before (i.e. - it
* was using the generic driver), we unbind the device