[PATCH 6.1] net: enetc: fix PF !of_device_is_available() teardown path

From: Vladimir Oltean

Date: Mon Mar 30 2026 - 04:20:13 EST


Upstream commit e15c5506dd39 ("net: enetc: allocate vf_state during PF
probes") was backported incorrectly to kernels where enetc_pf_probe()
still has to manually check whether the OF node of the PCI device is
enabled.

In kernels which contain commit bfce089ddd0e ("net: enetc: remove
of_device_is_available() handling") and its dependent change, commit
6fffbc7ae137 ("PCI: Honor firmware's device disabled status"), the
"err_device_disabled" label has disappeared. Yet, linux-6.1.y and
earlier still contains it.

The trouble is that upstream commit e15c5506dd39 ("net: enetc: allocate
vf_state during PF probes"), backported as 35668e29e979 in linux-6.1.y,
introduces new code for the err_setup_mac_addresses and err_alloc_netdev
labels which calls kfree(pf->vf_state). This code must not execute for
the err_device_disabled label, because at that stage, the pf structure
has not yet been allocated, and is an uninitialized pointer.

By moving the err_device_disabled label to undo just the previous
operation, i.e. a successful enetc_psi_create() call with
enetc_psi_destroy(), the dereference of uninitialized pf->vf_state is
avoided.

Fixes: 35668e29e979 ("net: enetc: allocate vf_state during PF probes")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-patches/20260330073356.GA1017537@ax162/
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c
index 99422c0b4a26..8cb4c759b165 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c
@@ -1393,10 +1393,10 @@ static int enetc_pf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
si->ndev = NULL;
free_netdev(ndev);
err_alloc_netdev:
-err_device_disabled:
err_setup_mac_addresses:
kfree(pf->vf_state);
err_alloc_vf_state:
+err_device_disabled:
enetc_psi_destroy(pdev);
err_psi_create:
return err;
--
2.43.0