[PATCH net v5 6/6] net: phy: avoid double-free after LED trigger registration failure
From: Xuanqiang Luo
Date: Sun Aug 23 2026 - 00:00:26 EST
From: Xuanqiang Luo <luoxuanqiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
phy_led_triggers_register() frees phy_led_triggers when a speed trigger
registration fails, but leaves the pointer set to the freed allocation
before clearing phy_num_led_triggers.
phy_probe() ignores the registration error. If a later probe step fails,
its error path calls phy_led_triggers_unregister(); normal teardown during
an unbind or MDIO bus removal calls the same helper from phy_remove().
In either case, the trigger count is zero, so the per-trigger unregister
loop is skipped, but the dangling pointer is still freed unconditionally.
Clear the pointer when partial registration cleanup frees the array, and
make phy_led_triggers_unregister() free the array only when its pointer is
non-NULL.
Fixes: b7f0ee992adf ("net: phy: leds: fix memory leak")
Signed-off-by: Xuanqiang Luo <luoxuanqiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c
index 4eb7716bb9d6c..ff6e518395be0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ int phy_led_triggers_register(struct phy_device *phy)
while (i--)
phy_led_trigger_unregister(&phy->phy_led_triggers[i]);
kfree(phy->phy_led_triggers);
+ phy->phy_led_triggers = NULL;
out_unreg_link:
phy_led_trigger_unregister(phy->led_link_trigger);
out_free_link:
@@ -141,10 +142,12 @@ void phy_led_triggers_unregister(struct phy_device *phy)
{
int i;
- for (i = 0; i < phy->phy_num_led_triggers; i++)
- phy_led_trigger_unregister(&phy->phy_led_triggers[i]);
- kfree(phy->phy_led_triggers);
- phy->phy_led_triggers = NULL;
+ if (phy->phy_led_triggers) {
+ for (i = 0; i < phy->phy_num_led_triggers; i++)
+ phy_led_trigger_unregister(&phy->phy_led_triggers[i]);
+ kfree(phy->phy_led_triggers);
+ phy->phy_led_triggers = NULL;
+ }
if (phy->led_link_trigger) {
phy_led_trigger_unregister(phy->led_link_trigger);
--
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