From: David S. Miller Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:52:16 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Merge branch 'dsa-devres' X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b3f98404bd629a243c0a15a3ade32b1cf9fbe0da;p=linux.git Merge branch 'dsa-devres' Vladimir Oltean says: ==================== Fix mdiobus users with devres Commit ac3a68d56651 ("net: phy: don't abuse devres in devm_mdiobus_register()") by Bartosz Golaszewski has introduced two classes of potential bugs by making the devres callback of devm_mdiobus_alloc stop calling mdiobus_unregister. The exact buggy circumstances are presented in the individual commit messages. I have searched the tree for other occurrences, but at the moment: - for issue (a) I have no concrete proof that other buses except SPI and I2C suffer from it, and the only SPI or I2C device drivers that call of_mdiobus_alloc are the DSA drivers that leave a NULL ds->slave_mii_bus and a non-NULL ds->ops->phy_read, aka ksz9477, ksz8795, lan9303_i2c, vsc73xx-spi. - for issue (b), all drivers which call of_mdiobus_alloc either use of_mdiobus_register too, or call mdiobus_unregister sometime within the ->remove path. Although at this point I've seen enough strangeness caused by this "device_del during ->shutdown" that I'm just going to copy the SPI and I2C subsystem maintainers to this patch series, to get their feedback whether they've had reports about things like this before. I don't think other buses behave in this way, it forces SPI and I2C devices to have to protect themselves from a really strange set of issues. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- b3f98404bd629a243c0a15a3ade32b1cf9fbe0da