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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:50:08 +0300
From:	Vitaly Bordug <vitb@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/.24] [NET] fs_enet: check for phydev existence in the
 ethtool handlers

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:59:23 +0300
Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> Otherwise oops will happen if ethernet device has not been opened:
> 
> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x0000014c
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc016f7f0
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> MPC85xx
> NIP: c016f7f0 LR: c01722a0 CTR: 00000000
> REGS: c79ddc70 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (2.6.24-rc3-g820a386b)
> MSR: 00029000 <EE,ME>  CR: 20004428  XER: 20000000
> DEAR: 0000014c, ESR: 00000000
> TASK = c789f5e0[999] 'snmpd' THREAD: c79dc000
> GPR00: c01aceb8 c79ddd20 c789f5e0 00000000 c79ddd3c 00000000 c79ddd64
> 00000000 GPR08: 00000000 c7845b60 c79dde3c c01ace80 20004422 200249fc
> 000002a0 100da728 GPR16: 100c0000 00000000 00000000 00000000 20022078
> 00000009 200220e0 bfc85558 GPR24: c79ddd3c 00000000 00000000 c02e0e70
> c022fc64 ffffffff c7845800 bfc85498 NIP [c016f7f0]
> phy_ethtool_gset+0x0/0x4c LR [c01722a0] fs_get_settings+0x18/0x28
> Call Trace:
> [c79ddd20] [c79dde38] 0xc79dde38 (unreliable)
> [c79ddd30] [c01aceb8] dev_ethtool+0x294/0x11ec
> [c79dde30] [c01aaa44] dev_ioctl+0x454/0x6a8
> [c79ddeb0] [c019b9d4] sock_ioctl+0x84/0x230
> [c79dded0] [c007ded8] do_ioctl+0x34/0x8c
> [c79ddee0] [c007dfbc] vfs_ioctl+0x8c/0x41c
> [c79ddf10] [c007e38c] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x74
> [c79ddf40] [c000d4c0] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x3c
> Instruction dump:
> 81630000 800b0030 2f800000 419e0010 7c0803a6 4e800021 7c691b78
> 80010014 7d234b78 38210010 7c0803a6 4e800020 <8003014c> 7c6b1b78
> 38600000 90040004
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
Acked-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@...nel.crashing.org>

Jeff: this fix is important and should be merged if possible.
> ---
>  drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c |   11 +++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
> b/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c index f2a4d39..23fddc3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
> @@ -897,14 +897,21 @@ static void fs_get_regs(struct net_device *dev,
> struct ethtool_regs *regs, static int fs_get_settings(struct
> net_device *dev, struct ethtool_cmd *cmd) {
>  	struct fs_enet_private *fep = netdev_priv(dev);
> +
> +	if (!fep->phydev)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
>  	return phy_ethtool_gset(fep->phydev, cmd);
>  }
>  
>  static int fs_set_settings(struct net_device *dev, struct
> ethtool_cmd *cmd) {
>  	struct fs_enet_private *fep = netdev_priv(dev);
> -	phy_ethtool_sset(fep->phydev, cmd);
> -	return 0;
> +
> +	if (!fep->phydev)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
> +	return phy_ethtool_sset(fep->phydev, cmd);
>  }
>  
>  static int fs_nway_reset(struct net_device *dev)


-- 
Sincerely, Vitaly
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