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net: emac: move setting of netops to fix crash

Published Oct 23, 2026 · Updated Oct 23, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: emac: move setting of netops to fix crash

fixes the following crash on driver initialization:

|BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000158
|Faulting instruction address: 0xc0566b40
|Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
|BE PAGE_SIZE=4K PowerPC 44x Platform
|Modules linked in:
|CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: GW 7.3.0-rc3+ #1
|Tainted: [W]=WARN
|Hardware name: MyBook Live APM821XX 0x12c41c83 PowerPC 44x Platform
|NIP: c0566b40 LR: c05648f8 CTR: c04c1e9c
|REGS: c1053a20 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: GW (7.3.0-rc3+)
|MSR: 0002b000 <CE,EE,FP,ME> CR: 24008808 XER: 00000000
|DEAR: 00000158 ESR: 00000000
|GPR00: c05648f8 c1053b10 c1063600 c1030000 c5ab3000 00000000 [...]
|GPR08: 00000002 00000000 00000000 c1053b40 84002808 00000000 [...]
|GPR16: cfffd210 00000002 c0beafcc cfffc960 00000000 c1030644 [...]
|GPR24: c0beafbc c1037000 00000000 0000000a 00000000 c1030000 [...]
|NIP [c0566b40] phy_link_topo_add_phy+0x2c/0x1d0
|LR [c05648f8] phy_attach_direct+0x1a4/0x368
|Call Trace:
|[c1053b10] [c0811e04] klist_put+0x54/0xb4 (unreliable)
|[c1053b40] [c05648f8] phy_attach_direct+0x1a4/0x368
|[c1053b70] [c0564ae8] phy_connect_direct+0x2c/0x60
|[c1053b90] [c056c7a8] of_phy_connect+0x50/0x74
|[c1053bc0] [c0572a88] emac_probe+0xd50/0x119c
|[c1053c90] [c04cb770] platform_probe+0x74/0xa4
|[c1053cb0] [c04c8f08] really_probe+0x120/0x2b0
|[c1053cd0] [c04c9254] __driver_probe_device+0x1bc/0x1fc
|[c1053d00] [c04c9334] driver_probe_device+0x38/0xa8
|[c1053d30] [c04c9560] __driver_attach+0xf4/0x10c
|[c1053d50] [c04c6af8] bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0xd0
|[c1053d90] [c04c7c34] bus_add_driver+0xcc/0x1ec
|[c1053dc0] [c04c9f6c] driver_register+0xcc/0x110
|[c1053de0] [c0aa3f40] emac_init+0x1c4/0x200

This bug showed up starting with v7.3-rc1. At the NIP in
phy_link_topo_add_phy() is a netdev_need_ops_lock() check.
This was added by the following
commit ded86da4bbb7 ("net: ethtool: relax ethnl_req_get_phydev() locking assertion")

The bug shows up because at the time of_phy_connect() was called, the
netdev_ops were *not yet* determined. My fix is to move the code that
sets netdev_ops+commac.ops+ethtool_ops further up as emac_init_config()
derives that by looking at the device-tree and sets the required
dev->phy_mode accordingly.

During review, the Sashiko bot's AI stated that the commac assignment
became a dead store. Great catch! To keep the original behavior as-is,
one mentioned option "set dev->commac.ops = &emac_commac_ops only in
the non-gige case?" sounded like a great plan. So the dev->commac.ops
assignment for the non-gige-case moves into the else block.

This patch was tested on a WD MyBook Live (RGMII). the device now works again.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 7.2 7.2.9

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 7.2.9-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +25 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —

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