netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: phy: Don't use drv when it is NULL in phy_attached

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Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:45:36 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     Romain Perier <romain.perier@...labora.com>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: phy: Don't use drv when it is NULL in
 phy_attached_print

Hello!

On 8/21/2017 10:52 AM, Romain Perier wrote:

> Currently, if this logging function is used prior the phy driver is
> binded to the phy device (that is usually done from .ndo_open),

    s/binded/bound/.

> 'phydev->drv' might be NULL, resulting in a kernel crash. That is
> typically the case in the stmmac driver, info about the phy is displayed
> during the registration of the MDIO bus, and then genphy driver is binded

    Likewise.

> to this phydev when .ndo_open is called.
> 
> This commit fixes the issue by using the right genphy driver, when
> phydev->drv is NULL.
> 
> Fixes: commit fbca164776e4 ("net: stmmac: Use the right logging functi")

    "Commit" not needed here.

> Signed-off-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier@...labora.com>
[...]

MBR, Sergei