Re: [PATCH net v4 0/4] net: phy: dp83640: fix shared clock lifetime and probe error cleanup

Richard Cochran <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 03:07:25PM +0800, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Xuanqiang Luo <[email protected]>
> 
> The DP83640 driver shares one PTP clock between all PHYs on the same MII
> bus.
> 
> Its driver-local clock lookup and removal scheme can leak the shared clock
> on probe failure or free it while another probe is acquiring it.

Is this an actual problem that you have seen in the real world?

Thanks,
Richard
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