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pasemi_mac: ethtool get settings fix

Message ID 20091005132756.GA11704@ru.mvista.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Valentine Barshak Oct. 5, 2009, 1:27 p.m. UTC
Not all pasemi mac interfaces can have a phy attached.
For example, XAUI has no phy and phydev is NULL for it.
In this case ethtool get settings causes kernel crash.
Fix it by returning -EOPNOTSUPP if there's no PHY attached.

Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru.mvista.com>
---
 drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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Comments

Olof Johansson Oct. 6, 2009, 4:10 p.m. UTC | #1
Weird, I see my address in the to: line but I never got a copy in my inbox.

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:27:56PM +0400, Valentine Barshak wrote:
> Not all pasemi mac interfaces can have a phy attached.
> For example, XAUI has no phy and phydev is NULL for it.
> In this case ethtool get settings causes kernel crash.
> Fix it by returning -EOPNOTSUPP if there's no PHY attached.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru.mvista.com>

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>

> ---
>  drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff -pruN linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c linux-2.6/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c	2009-02-14 03:23:08.000000000 +0300
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c	2009-10-05 16:21:52.000000000 +0400
> @@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ pasemi_mac_ethtool_get_settings(struct n
>  	struct pasemi_mac *mac = netdev_priv(netdev);
>  	struct phy_device *phydev = mac->phydev;
>  
> +	if (!phydev)
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +
>  	return phy_ethtool_gset(phydev, cmd);
>  }
>  
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David Miller Oct. 7, 2009, 10:43 a.m. UTC | #2
From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:10:54 -0500

> Weird, I see my address in the to: line but I never got a copy in my inbox.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:27:56PM +0400, Valentine Barshak wrote:
>> Not all pasemi mac interfaces can have a phy attached.
>> For example, XAUI has no phy and phydev is NULL for it.
>> In this case ethtool get settings causes kernel crash.
>> Fix it by returning -EOPNOTSUPP if there's no PHY attached.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru.mvista.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>

Applied to net-2.6, thanks!
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Patch

diff -pruN linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c linux-2.6/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c	2009-02-14 03:23:08.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c	2009-10-05 16:21:52.000000000 +0400
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@  pasemi_mac_ethtool_get_settings(struct n
 	struct pasemi_mac *mac = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	struct phy_device *phydev = mac->phydev;
 
+	if (!phydev)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 	return phy_ethtool_gset(phydev, cmd);
 }