From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH master] net: phy: mdio_bus: fix freeing of cdev name before devfs_remove
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:41:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260126104153.547505-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> (raw)
devfs_remove acces struct cdev::name to do an unlink on the path in
/dev. This leads to a use-after-free inside mdio_bus_remove.
Reorder the free after devfs_remove to fix this. This is the way that
other drivers in tree that have /free.*cdev(\.|->)name/ do it.
Issue was detected by KASAN being active during kernel boot.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
---
drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index a7eda3f84a11..1381f70f1cf8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
@@ -610,8 +610,8 @@ static void mdio_bus_remove(struct device *_dev)
if (drv->remove)
drv->remove(dev);
- free(dev->cdev.name);
devfs_remove(&dev->cdev);
+ free(dev->cdev.name);
bus->phy_map[dev->addr] = NULL;
}
--
2.47.3
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2026-01-26 10:41 Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
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