net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling
Move the freeing of the dummy net_device from mtk_free_dev() to mtk_remove(). Previously, if alloc_netdev_dummy() failed in mtk_probe(), eth->dummy_dev would be NULL. The error path would then call mtk_free_dev(), which in turn called free_netdev() assuming dummy_dev was allocated (but it was not), potentially causing a NULL pointer dereference. By moving free_netdev() to mtk_remove(), we ensure it's only called when mtk_probe() has succeeded and dummy_dev is fully allocated. This addresses a potential NULL pointer dereference detected by Smatch[1]. Fixes: b209bd6d ("net: mediatek: mtk_eth_sock: allocate dummy net_device dynamically") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4160f4e0-cbef-4a22-8b5d-42c4d399e1f7@stanley.mountain/ [1] Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240724080524.2734499-1-leitao@debian.orgSigned-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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