[PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy
Maxime Chevallier
maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com
Tue Jun 23 09:23:00 PDT 2026
On 6/23/26 10:05, Petr Wozniak wrote:
> sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create() allocates the I2C MDIO bus with mdio_i2c_alloc(),
> a plain (non-devm) allocation, and registers it. sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy()
> only unregisters the bus and clears sfp->i2c_mii without calling
> mdiobus_free(). As the only reference to the bus is then cleared, the
> struct mii_bus is leaked.
>
> This is hit whenever a copper/RollBall SFP module that instantiated an MDIO
> bus is removed: sfp_sm_main() takes the global teardown path and calls
> sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy(). sfp_cleanup(), on driver unbind, frees
> sfp->i2c_mii directly, which is why the leak only triggered on module
> hot-removal and not on unbind.
which is worse, this can happen many times in a row :)
>
> Free the bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy() to match the allocation done in
> sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create().
>
> Fixes: e85b1347ace6 ("net: sfp: create/destroy I2C mdiobus before PHY probe/after PHY release")
> Signed-off-by: Petr Wozniak <petr.wozniak at gmail.com>
With this patch sent towards the -net tree,
Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com>
Maxime
> ---
> drivers/net/phy/sfp.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
> index 03bfd8640db9..c4d274ab651e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
> @@ -963,6 +963,7 @@ static int sfp_i2c_mdiobus_create(struct sfp *sfp)
> static void sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy(struct sfp *sfp)
> {
> mdiobus_unregister(sfp->i2c_mii);
> + mdiobus_free(sfp->i2c_mii);
> sfp->i2c_mii = NULL;
> }
>
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