netdev - Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon-ethernet: trivial: Avoid OOPS if phydev is not set

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Message-ID: <20131014194937.GD4260@blackmetal.musicnaut.iki.fi>
Date:	Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:49:37 +0300
From:	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	support@...iumnetworks.com, David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	Sebastian Pöhn <sebastian.poehn@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon-ethernet: trivial: Avoid OOPS if phydev
 is not set

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:16:49PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 09:39:06PM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> > It's initialized in cvm_oct_phy_setup_device():
> > 
> > 	priv->phydev = of_phy_connect(dev, phy_node, cvm_oct_adjust_link, 0,
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Sorry I should have explained better.
> 
> We use cvm_oct_adjust_link() to initialize priv->phydev but
> cvm_oct_adjust_link() depends on priv->phydev.  It seems like we would
> hit the NULL dereference every time.  Weird huh?

It doesn't happen on my system (EdgeRouter Lite). I think you need to
explain even more better. :-)

What you mean by "We use cvm_oct_adjust_link() to initialize
priv->phydev..."? Sorry, maybe I'm just missing something really
obvious...

A.
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