From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> For devm_phy_put(), its comment says it needs to invoke phy_put() to release the phy, but it does not invoke the function actually since devres_destroy() will not call devm_phy_release() at all which will call the function, and the missing phy_put() call will cause: - The phy fails to be released. - devm_phy_put() can not fully undo what API devm_phy_get() does. - Leak refcount of both the module and device for below typical usage: devm_phy_get(); // or its variant ... err = do_something(); if (err) goto err_out; ... err_out: devm_phy_put(); The file(s) affected by this issue are shown below since they have such typical usage. drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence.c drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c Fixed by using devres_release() instead of devres_destroy() within the API Fixes: ff764963479a ("drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kw@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c index f053b525ccff..f190d7126613 100644 --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ void devm_phy_put(struct device *dev, struct phy *phy) if (!phy) return; - r = devres_destroy(dev, devm_phy_release, devm_phy_match, phy); + r = devres_release(dev, devm_phy_release, devm_phy_match, phy); dev_WARN_ONCE(dev, r, "couldn't find PHY resource\n"); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_phy_put); -- 2.34.1