netdev - Re: [PATCH] phylib: Fix oops in suspend/resume paths

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Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:51:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	avorontsov@...mvista.com
Cc:	jgarzik@...ox.com, afleming@...escale.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: Fix oops in suspend/resume paths

From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:09:30 +0300

> Suspend/resume routines check for phydrv != NULL, but that is
> wrong because "phydrv" comes from container_of(drv). If drv is NULL,
> then container_of(drv) will return non-NULL result, and the checks
> won't work.
> 
> The Freescale TBI PHYs are driver-less, so "drv" is NULL, and that
> leads to the following oops:
 ...
> This patch fixes the issue, plus removes unneeded parentheses
> and fixes indentation level in mdio_bus_suspend().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>

Applied, thanks Anton.
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