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net: phy: Don't register LEDs for genphy
authorSean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
Mon, 7 Jul 2025 19:58:03 +0000 (15:58 -0400)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:53:09 +0000 (17:53 -0700)
commitf0f2b992d8185a0366be951685e08643aae17d6d
tree6cefda1a3ada658cd61b23c907bb24439accf518
parente18f348632ec4ee25d9172cdff273f0e939241c7
net: phy: Don't register LEDs for genphy

If a PHY has no driver, the genphy driver is probed/removed directly in
phy_attach/detach. If the PHY's ofnode has an "leds" subnode, then the
LEDs will be (un)registered when probing/removing the genphy driver.
This could occur if the leds are for a non-generic driver that isn't
loaded for whatever reason. Synchronously removing the PHY device in
phy_detach leads to the following deadlock:

rtnl_lock()
ndo_close()
    ...
    phy_detach()
        phy_remove()
            phy_leds_unregister()
                led_classdev_unregister()
                    led_trigger_set()
                        netdev_trigger_deactivate()
                            unregister_netdevice_notifier()
                                rtnl_lock()

There is a corresponding deadlock on the open/register side of things
(and that one is reported by lockdep), but it requires a race while this
one is deterministic.

Generic PHYs do not support LEDs anyway, so don't bother registering
them.

Fixes: 01e5b728e9e4 ("net: phy: Add a binding for PHY LEDs")
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250707195803.666097-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c