net: pse-pd: scope pse_control regulator handle to kref lifetime

__pse_control_release() drops psec->ps via devm_regulator_put(), which
only succeeds if the devres entry added by the matching
devm_regulator_get_exclusive() is still present on pcdev->dev at the
time the pse_control's kref hits zero.

That assumption does not hold when the controller is unbound while a
pse_control still has consumers: pcdev->dev's devres list is released
LIFO, so every per-attach regulator-GET devres runs (and
regulator_put()s the underlying regulator) before
pse_controller_unregister() itself is invoked. Any later
pse_control_put() from that unbind path then reads psec->ps as a
dangling pointer inside devm_regulator_put() and WARNs at
drivers/regulator/devres.c:232 (devres_release() fails to find the
already-released match).

The pse_control's consumer handle is logically scoped to the
pse_control's refcount, not to pcdev->dev's devres lifetime. Switch to
the plain regulator_get_exclusive() / regulator_put() pair so the
regulator put in __pse_control_release() no longer depends on the
controller's devres still being present. No change to the
regulator-framework-visible refcount or lifetime of the underlying
regulator: a single get paired with a single put. The existing
devm_regulator_register() for the per-PI rails is unchanged (those ARE
correctly scoped to the controller's lifetime).

This addresses only the regulator handle. The same unbind-while-held
scenario also leaves __pse_control_release() reading psec->pcdev->pi[]
and psec->pcdev->owner after pse_controller_unregister() has freed
pcdev->pi, because the controller does not drain its outstanding
pse_control references on unregister. That wider pse_control vs
pcdev lifetime problem pre-dates this change and is addressed by the
PSE controller notifier series, which drains phydev->psec on
PSE_UNREGISTERED before pcdev->pi is freed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260620112440.1734404-1-github@szelinsky.de/
Fixes: d83e13761d5b ("net: pse-pd: Use regulator framework within PSE framework")
Signed-off-by: Corey Leavitt <corey@leavitt.info>
Acked-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlo Szelinsky <github@szelinsky.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624204017.2752934-1-github@szelinsky.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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