[PATCH net] net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: Ensure clk_phy doesn't contain invalid address

Yao Zi ziyao at disroot.org
Thu Sep 4 04:20:28 PDT 2025


On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 06:58:12PM +0800, Chaoyi Chen wrote:
> 
> On 9/4/2025 6:49 PM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 11:34:43AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > Thanks, and sorry for my early confusion about applying this patch.
> > > 
> > > I agree that the bug you point out is addressed by this patch.
> > > Although I wonder if it is cleaner not to set bsp_priv->clk_phy
> > > unless there is no error, rather than setting it then resetting
> > > it if there is an error.
> > +1 !
> > 
> > > More importantly, I wonder if there is another bug: does clk_set_rate need
> > > to be called in the case where there is no error and bsp_priv->integrated_phy
> > > is false?
> > I think there's another issue:
> > 
> > static int rk_gmac_clk_init(struct plat_stmmacenet_data *plat)
> > {
> > ...
> >          if (plat->phy_node) {
> >                  bsp_priv->clk_phy = of_clk_get(plat->phy_node, 0);

This is the only invokation to of_clk_get() in the driver. Should we
convert it to the devres-managed variant? And rk_gmac_remove could be
simplified further.

> > ...
> > 
> > static void rk_gmac_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > {
> > ...
> >          if (priv->plat->phy_node && bsp_priv->integrated_phy)
> >                  clk_put(bsp_priv->clk_phy);
> > 
> > So if bsp_priv->integrated_phy is false, then we get the clock but
> > don't put it.
> 
> Yes! Just remove "bsp_priv->integrated_phy"
> 

Cheers,
Yao Zi



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