netdev - Re: Kernel crashes in phy_attach

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Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:40:29 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel crashes in phy_attach_direct()

> Yes, after reverting this commit I no longer get the kernel crash.

And i guess you don't have a specific PHY driver for you PHYs. You are
using the generic PHY driver?

Could you try modifying phy_attach_direct() such that the
try_module_get() is after:

       /* Assume that if there is no driver, that it doesn't
         * exist, and we should use the genphy driver.
         */
        if (!d->driver) {
	<snip>
        } 

Thanks
	Andrew