netdev - Potential issue with f5e64032a799 "net: phy: fix resume handling"

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Date:   Sat, 3 Feb 2018 17:41:54 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Potential issue with f5e64032a799 "net: phy: fix resume handling"

This commit forces callers of phy_resume() and phy_suspend() to hold
mutex phydev->lock. This was done for calls to phy_resume() and
phy_suspend() in phylib, however there are more callers in network
drivers. I'd assume that these other calls issue a warning now
because of the lock not being held.
So is there something I miss or would this have to be fixed?