[PATCH v4 1/6] phy: core: Fix that API devm_phy_put() fails to release the phy

[Zijun Hu]

From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

For devm_phy_put(), its comment says it needs to invoke phy_put() to
release the phy, but it will not actually invoke the function since
devres_destroy() does not call devm_phy_release(), and the missing
phy_put() call will cause:

- The phy fails to be released.
- devm_phy_put() can not fully undo what API devm_phy_get() does.
- Leak refcount of both the module and device for below typical usage:

  devm_phy_get(); // or its variant
  ...
  err = do_something();
  if (err)
      goto err_out;
  ...
  err_out:
  devm_phy_put(); // leak refcount here

  The file(s) affected by this issue are shown below since they have such
  typical usage.
  drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence.c
  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c

Fixed by using devres_release() instead of devres_destroy() within the API.

Fixes: ff764963479a ("drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kw@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
index f053b525ccff..f190d7126613 100644
--- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
+++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ void devm_phy_put(struct device *dev, struct phy *phy)
 	if (!phy)
 		return;
 
-	r = devres_destroy(dev, devm_phy_release, devm_phy_match, phy);
+	r = devres_release(dev, devm_phy_release, devm_phy_match, phy);
 	dev_WARN_ONCE(dev, r, "couldn't find PHY resource\n");
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_phy_put);

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