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Message-ID: <CAAtXAHeHyz1-HtLqa5rzLWoyEy6+sokRDzE8frVRGt3xomCvPA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2016 08:20:51 -0700
From:   Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@...us.com>
To:     Xander Huff <xander.huff@...com>
Cc:     Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@...com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Brad Mouring <brad.mouring@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: macb: NULL out phydev after removing mdio bus

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Xander Huff <xander.huff@...com> wrote:
> From: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@...com>
>
> To ensure the dev->phydev pointer is not used after becoming invalid in
> mdiobus_unregister, set it to NULL. This happens when removing the macb
> driver without first taking its interface down, since unregister_netdev
> will end up calling macb_close.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xander Huff <xander.huff@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Brad Mouring <brad.mouring@...com>
Reviewed-by: Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@...us.com>

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