From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH net-2.6/stable] tg3: Restrict phy ioctl access Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:39:35 -0800 Message-ID: <20110216223935.GF22056@kroah.com> References: <1297810270-4690-1-git-send-email-mcarlson@broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org To: Matt Carlson Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:36118 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755158Ab1BPW5K (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:57:10 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1297810270-4690-1-git-send-email-mcarlson@broadcom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:51:10PM -0800, Matt Carlson wrote: > If management firmware is present and the device is down, the firmware > will assume control of the phy. If a phy access were allowed from the > host, it will collide with firmware phy accesses, resulting in > unpredictable behavior. This patch fixes the problem by disallowing phy > accesses during the problematic condition. > > Upstream commit ID f746a3136a61ae535c5d0b49a9418fa21edc61b5 There is no such upstream git commit id in Linus's tree. What am I doing wrong here? confused, greg k-h