Re: [PATCHv5 net 1/2] net: asix: fix modprobe "sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename"

[Simon Horman]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 11:13:21AM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> "modprobe asix ; rmmod asix ; modprobe asix" fails with:
>    sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename \
>    	'/devices/virtual/mdio_bus/usb-003:004'
> 
> Issue was originally reported by Anton Lundin on 2022-06-22 (link below).
> 
> Chrome OS team hit the same issue in Feb, 2023 when trying to find
> work arounds for other issues with AX88172 devices.
> 
> The use of devm_mdiobus_register() with usbnet devices results in the
> MDIO data being associated with the USB device. When the asix driver
> is unloaded, the USB device continues to exist and the corresponding
> "mdiobus_unregister()" is NOT called until the USB device is unplugged
> or unauthorized. So the next "modprobe asix" will fail because the MDIO
> phy sysfs attributes still exist.
> 
> The 'easy' (from a design PoV) fix is to use the non-devm variants of
> mdiobus_* functions and explicitly manage this use in the asix_bind
> and asix_unbind function calls. I've not explored trying to fix usbnet
> initialization so devm_* stuff will work.
> 
> Fixes: e532a096be0e5 ("net: usb: asix: ax88772: add phylib support")
> Reported-by: Anton Lundin <glance@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220623063649.GD23685@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/
> Tested-by: Eizan Miyamoto <eizan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>