[PATCH 1/2] net: phy: Check phydev->drv before dereferencing it

From: Claudiu Beznea
Date: Sun Nov 26 2023 - 09:15:03 EST


The macb driver calls mdiobus_unregister() and mdiobus_free() in its remove
function before calling unregister_netdev(). unregister_netdev() calls the
driver-specific struct net_device_ops::ndo_stop function (macb_close()),
and macb_close() calls phylink_disconnect_phy(). This, in turn, will call:

phy_disconnect() ->
phy_free_interrupt() ->
phy_disable_interrupts() ->
phy_config_interrupt()

which dereference phydev->drv, which was already freed by:
mdiobus_unregister() ->
phy_mdio_device_remove() ->
device_del() ->
bus_remove_device() ->
device_release_driver_internal() ->
phy_remove()

from macb_close().

Although the sequence in the macb driver is not correct, check phydev->drv      
before dereferencing it in phy_config_interrupt() to avoid scenarios
like the one described.

Fixes: 00db8189d984 ("This patch adds a PHY Abstraction Layer to the Linux Kernel")
Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
index a5fa077650e8..dd98a4b3ef81 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(phy_get_rate_matching);
static int phy_config_interrupt(struct phy_device *phydev, bool interrupts)
{
phydev->interrupts = interrupts ? 1 : 0;
- if (phydev->drv->config_intr)
+ if (phydev->drv && phydev->drv->config_intr)
return phydev->drv->config_intr(phydev);

return 0;
--
2.39.2