diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/nxp-tja11xx.c b/drivers/net/phy/nxp-tja11xx.c
index 9944cc501806..2a8195c50d14 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/nxp-tja11xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/nxp-tja11xx.c
@@ -444,15 +444,10 @@ static int tja11xx_hwmon_register(struct phy_device *phydev,
 				  struct tja11xx_priv *priv)
 {
 	struct device *dev = &phydev->mdio.dev;
-	int i;
 
-	priv->hwmon_name = devm_kstrdup(dev, dev_name(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!priv->hwmon_name)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	for (i = 0; priv->hwmon_name[i]; i++)
-		if (hwmon_is_bad_char(priv->hwmon_name[i]))
-			priv->hwmon_name[i] = '_';
+	priv->hwmon_name = devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(dev, dev_name(dev));
+	if (IS_ERR(priv->hwmon_name))
+		return PTR_ERR(priv->hwmon_name);
 
 	priv->hwmon_dev =
 		devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(dev, priv->hwmon_name,
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
index 9a5d5a10560f..81a529c3dbe4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
@@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@ static const struct hwmon_chip_info sfp_hwmon_chip_info = {
 static void sfp_hwmon_probe(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct sfp *sfp = container_of(work, struct sfp, hwmon_probe.work);
-	int err, i;
+	int err;
 
 	/* hwmon interface needs to access 16bit registers in atomic way to
 	 * guarantee coherency of the diagnostic monitoring data. If it is not
@@ -1318,16 +1318,12 @@ static void sfp_hwmon_probe(struct work_struct *work)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	sfp->hwmon_name = kstrdup(dev_name(sfp->dev), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!sfp->hwmon_name) {
+	sfp->hwmon_name = hwmon_sanitize_name(dev_name(sfp->dev));
+	if (IS_ERR(sfp->hwmon_name)) {
 		dev_err(sfp->dev, "out of memory for hwmon name\n");
 		return;
 	}
 
-	for (i = 0; sfp->hwmon_name[i]; i++)
-		if (hwmon_is_bad_char(sfp->hwmon_name[i]))
-			sfp->hwmon_name[i] = '_';
-
 	sfp->hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register_with_info(sfp->dev,
 							 sfp->hwmon_name, sfp,
 							 &sfp_hwmon_chip_info,