net: phy: prevent stale pointer dereference in phy_init()
mdio_bus_init() and phy_driver_register() both have error paths, and if those are ever hit, ethtool will have a stale pointer to the phy_ethtool_phy_ops stub structure, which references memory from a module that failed to load (phylib). It is probably hard to force an error in this code path even manually, but the error teardown path of phy_init() should be the same as phy_exit(), which is now simply not the case. Fixes: 55d8f053 ("net: phy: Register ethtool PHY operations") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZLaiJ4G6TaJYGJyU@shell.armlinux.org.uk/Suggested-by: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230720000231.1939689-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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