[PATCH net v9 4/4] net: phy: restore the interrupt when the generic bind cycle fails
From: Aleksei Sviridkin
Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 21:54:31 EST
phy_attach_direct() binds the generic driver by hand, and the probe it
calls is phy_probe(), which replaces phydev->irq with PHY_POLL before
either of the points it can fail at. That failure unwinds on a label of
its own, which does not go through phy_detach(), so the substitution
outlives a bind cycle that never completed and a later attach finds a
PHY that can only be polled. Found while placing the restore of the
previous patch, as the other exit of the same bind cycle.
Take the number back on that label as well, before it clears d->driver.
That store is what reopens the device to the driver core: until it runs,
a driver registering on another CPU is turned away with -EBUSY and
phy_probe() cannot be the second writer of this field.
Fixes: 6d9f66ac7fec ("net: phy: Fix PHY module checks and NULL deref in phy_attach_direct()")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@xxxxxx>
---
Notes:
Both points the hand-bind can fail at are reachable. phy_probe() reaches
genphy_read_abilities() through genphy_driver's .get_features, and that
returns the error from phy_read(phydev, MII_BMSR); device_bind_driver()
returns whatever driver_sysfs_add() got from sysfs_create_link().
A failed genphy bind leaves the device with no driver bound at all, so the
next driver to arrive binds directly and never goes through phy_detach().
That is why patch 3 cannot cover this path, and why the Fixes: tag here is
6d9f66ac7fec rather than the one patch 3 carries. That commit did not
introduce the lost number - the substitution is far older - it created this
second exit from the bind cycle, splitting the failure off the label that
calls phy_detach(). Before it, patch 3 alone would have covered this, so
that is where the backport range for this one starts.
Exercised on the board described in patch 3, with a debug-only module
parameter that fails the hand-bound generic probe once for one MDIO
address. The connect then ends in -EIO rather than the -EINVAL of the
validation path, so the unwind takes the label this patch touches.
phydev->irq afterwards reads -1 with patch 3 alone and 15 with this one.
One difference between the injector and a real failure, since it does not
affect what was measured but should not be implied away: a genuine error
inside phy_probe() leaves through its out: label, which re-asserts the PHY
reset before returning, while the injector returns earlier than that.
Neither path touches phydev->irq.
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 8e6b399f95d6..69d8911ea7f6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -1896,6 +1896,8 @@ int phy_attach_direct(struct net_device *dev, struct phy_device *phydev,
error_module_put:
module_put(d->driver->owner);
+ /* Before the NULL below, which lets another probe reach this field. */
+ phydev->irq = bus->irq[phydev->mdio.addr];
phydev->is_genphy_driven = 0;
d->driver = NULL;
error_put_device:
--
2.53.0