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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:02:22 +0100
From:	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Networking fixes for -stable.

Hi Ben,

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 00:25 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> Please queue up the following networking bug fixes for
>> 3.0.x, 3.2.x, 3.4.x, and 3.6.x, respectively.
> [...]
>> From 2204849a85383fbde75680aa199142abe504adbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>
>> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:12:01 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH 7/9] drivers/net/phy/mdio-bitbang.c: Call mdiobus_unregister
>>  before mdiobus_free
>>
>> [ Upstream commit aa731872f7d33dcb8b54dad0cfb82d4e4d195d7e ]
>>
>> Based on commit b27393aecf66199f5ddad37c302d3e0cfadbe6c0
>>
>> Calling mdiobus_free without calling mdiobus_unregister causes
>> BUG_ON(). This patch fixes the issue.
> [...]
>
> This introduces a regresssion, as mdiobus_unregister() is not safe to
> call if the bus isn't registered.  Registration is controlled by the
> drivers that use mdio-bitbang, and they should take care of
> unregistration too - and most of them do.

Is mdiobus_free() safe to call if the bus isn't registered?

I found calls to free_mdio_bitbang() after call to
mdiobus_unregister() that may be the worst cases for my patch. But I
also found places that call free_mdio_bitbang() without first calling
mdiobus_unregister(). See:

linux-next/arch/powerpc/platforms/82xx/ep8248e.c:152
linux-next/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ax88796.c:647
linux-next/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c:197
linux-next/drivers/net/phy/mdio-gpio.c:157
linux-next/drivers/net/phy/mdio-gpio.c:172

Are those calls to free_mdio_bitbang() wrong by not calling
mdiobus_unregister() before?

>
> This should be reverted in mainline and not applied to any stable
> series.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> For every complex problem
> there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

Thank you for reviewing,

Peter

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Peter
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