On 9/1/2021 3:50 PM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
DSA supports connecting to a phy-handle, and has a fallback to a non-OF
based method of connecting to an internal PHY on the switch's own MDIO
bus, if no phy-handle and no fixed-link nodes were present.
The -ENODEV error code from the first attempt (phylink_of_phy_connect)
is what triggers the second attempt (phylink_connect_phy).
However, when the first attempt returns a different error code than
-ENODEV, this results in an unbalance of calls to phylink_create and
phylink_destroy by the time we exit the function. The phylink instance
has leaked.
There are many other error codes that can be returned by
phylink_of_phy_connect. For example, phylink_validate returns -EINVAL.
So this is a practical issue too.
Fixes: aab9c4067d23 ("net: dsa: Plug in PHYLINK support")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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Florian
