This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled r6040: Fix kmemleak in probe and remove to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: r6040-fix-kmemleak-in-probe-and-remove.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a1a181bddad51ed9c2bbd81ec4f836ffdef91b84 Author: Li Zetao <lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Dec 13 20:56:14 2022 +0800 r6040: Fix kmemleak in probe and remove [ Upstream commit 7e43039a49c2da45edc1d9d7c9ede4003ab45a5f ] There is a memory leaks reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff888116111000 (size 2048): comm "modprobe", pid 817, jiffies 4294759745 (age 76.502s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 c4 0a 04 81 88 ff ff 08 10 11 16 81 88 ff ff ................ 08 10 11 16 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff815bcd82>] kmalloc_trace+0x22/0x60 [<ffffffff827e20ee>] phy_device_create+0x4e/0x90 [<ffffffff827e6072>] get_phy_device+0xd2/0x220 [<ffffffff827e7844>] mdiobus_scan+0xa4/0x2e0 [<ffffffff827e8be2>] __mdiobus_register+0x482/0x8b0 [<ffffffffa01f5d24>] r6040_init_one+0x714/0xd2c [r6040] ... The problem occurs in probe process as follows: r6040_init_one: mdiobus_register mdiobus_scan <- alloc and register phy_device, the reference count of phy_device is 3 r6040_mii_probe phy_connect <- connect to the first phy_device, so the reference count of the first phy_device is 4, others are 3 register_netdev <- fault inject succeeded, goto error handling path // error handling path err_out_mdio_unregister: mdiobus_unregister(lp->mii_bus); err_out_mdio: mdiobus_free(lp->mii_bus); <- the reference count of the first phy_device is 1, it is not released and other phy_devices are released // similarly, the remove process also has the same problem The root cause is traced to the phy_device is not disconnected when removes one r6040 device in r6040_remove_one() or on error handling path after r6040_mii probed successfully. In r6040_mii_probe(), a net ethernet device is connected to the first PHY device of mii_bus, in order to notify the connected driver when the link status changes, which is the default behavior of the PHY infrastructure to handle everything. Therefore the phy_device should be disconnected when removes one r6040 device or on error handling path. Fix it by adding phy_disconnect() when removes one r6040 device or on error handling path after r6040_mii probed successfully. Fixes: 3831861b4ad8 ("r6040: implement phylib") Signed-off-by: Li Zetao <lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221213125614.927754-1-lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/rdc/r6040.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/rdc/r6040.c index 2199bd08f4d6..e377c1f68777 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/rdc/r6040.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/rdc/r6040.c @@ -1184,10 +1184,12 @@ static int r6040_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) err = register_netdev(dev); if (err) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to register net device\n"); - goto err_out_mdio_unregister; + goto err_out_phy_disconnect; } return 0; +err_out_phy_disconnect: + phy_disconnect(dev->phydev); err_out_mdio_unregister: mdiobus_unregister(lp->mii_bus); err_out_mdio: @@ -1211,6 +1213,7 @@ static void r6040_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pdev) struct r6040_private *lp = netdev_priv(dev); unregister_netdev(dev); + phy_disconnect(dev->phydev); mdiobus_unregister(lp->mii_bus); mdiobus_free(lp->mii_bus); netif_napi_del(&lp->napi);