Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: prevent stale pointer dereference in phy_init()

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Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 03:02:31 +0300 you wrote:
> 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.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] net: phy: prevent stale pointer dereference in phy_init()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/1c613beaf877

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