netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net: fec: add netif status check before set mac address

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Date:	Tue, 8 Sep 2015 20:37:51 -0700
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	Fugang Duan <b38611@...escale.com>, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bhutchings@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net: fec: add netif status check before set
 mac address

Le 09/08/15 19:42, Fugang Duan a écrit :
> There exist one issue by below case that case system hang:
> ifconfig eth0 down
> ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:10:19:19:81:19
> 
> After eth0 down, all fec clocks are gated off. In the .fec_set_mac_address()
> function, it will set new MAC address to registers, which causes system hang.
> 
> So it needs to add netif status check to avoid registers access when clocks are
> gated off. Until eth0 up the new MAC address are wrote into related registers.

Since this is a bug fix, do not you intend to target the "net" tree
instead of "net-next"?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Fugang Duan <B38611@...escale.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
> index 91925e3..cd09dbb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
> @@ -3029,6 +3029,9 @@ fec_set_mac_address(struct net_device *ndev, void *p)
>  		memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ndev->addr_len);
>  	}
>  
> +	if (!netif_running(ndev))
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	writel(ndev->dev_addr[3] | (ndev->dev_addr[2] << 8) |
>  		(ndev->dev_addr[1] << 16) | (ndev->dev_addr[0] << 24),
>  		fep->hwp + FEC_ADDR_LOW);
> 


-- 
Florian
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