[PATCH 5.15.y] net: cpsw_new: Fix potential unregister of netdev that has not been registered yet

From: Wenshan Lan

Date: Mon Jun 01 2026 - 03:45:19 EST


From: Kevin Hao <haokexin@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 9d724b34fbe13b71865ad0906a4be97571f19cf5 ]

If an error occurs during register_netdev() for the first MAC in
cpsw_register_ports(), even though cpsw->slaves[0].ndev is set to NULL,
cpsw->slaves[1].ndev would remain unchanged. This could later cause
cpsw_unregister_ports() to attempt unregistering the second MAC.
To address this, add a check for ndev->reg_state before calling
unregister_netdev(). With this change, setting cpsw->slaves[i].ndev
to NULL becomes unnecessary and can be removed accordingly.

Fixes: ed3525eda4c4 ("net: ethernet: ti: introduce cpsw switchdev based driver part 1 - dual-emac")
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205-cpsw-error-path-v1-2-6e58bae6b299@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wenshan Lan <jetlan9@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c
index 9d52b949ae3f..bef2c71b9059 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c
@@ -1447,7 +1447,8 @@ static void cpsw_unregister_ports(struct cpsw_common *cpsw)
int i = 0;

for (i = 0; i < cpsw->data.slaves; i++) {
- if (!cpsw->slaves[i].ndev)
+ if (!cpsw->slaves[i].ndev ||
+ cpsw->slaves[i].ndev->reg_state != NETREG_REGISTERED)
continue;

unregister_netdev(cpsw->slaves[i].ndev);
@@ -1467,7 +1468,6 @@ static int cpsw_register_ports(struct cpsw_common *cpsw)
if (ret) {
dev_err(cpsw->dev,
"cpsw: err registering net device%d\n", i);
- cpsw->slaves[i].ndev = NULL;
break;
}
}
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2.43.0