From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> [ Upstream commit c2b727df7caa33876e7066bde090f40001b6d643 ] If we have unbound the PHY driver prior to calling phy_detach() (often via phy_disconnect()) then we can cause a NULL pointer de-reference accessing the driver owner member. The steps to reproduce are: echo unimac-mdio-0:01 > /sys/class/net/eth0/phydev/driver/unbind ip link set eth0 down Fixes: cafe8df8b9bc ("net: phy: Fix lack of reference count on PHY driver") Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c index fd88e5240877..1266f8e0df22 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c @@ -1150,7 +1150,8 @@ void phy_detach(struct phy_device *phydev) phy_led_triggers_unregister(phydev); - module_put(phydev->mdio.dev.driver->owner); + if (phydev->mdio.dev.driver) + module_put(phydev->mdio.dev.driver->owner); /* If the device had no specific driver before (i.e. - it * was using the generic driver), we unbind the device -- 2.25.1