netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: renesas: sh_eth: do not access POST registers if not exist

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Date:   Sun, 28 Aug 2016 21:31:01 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@...esas.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Simon Horman <horms+renesas@...ge.net.au>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: renesas: sh_eth: do not access POST
 registers if not exist

Hello.

    Oh, and I'll have to correct your language and terminology. :-/
Should be "if they don't exist" in the subject.

On 08/26/2016 11:01 PM, Chris Brandt wrote:

> The RZ/A1 has a TSU, but since it only has one Ethernet port, it does not
> have POST registers. Therefore, if you try to write to register index
> TSU_POST1 (which will be FFFF because it does not exist),

    It's not a register index which is 0xFFFF but the register offset (fetched 
from a layout table using the index).

> it will either panic or corrupt memory elsewhere.
>
> Reported-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@...esas.com>
[...]

MBR, Sergei