Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: sfp: Fix unregistering of HWMON SFP device

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 03:43:33PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 09/24/2018 03:38 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > A HWMON device is only registered is the SFP module supports the
> > diagnostic page and is complient to SFF8472. Don't unconditionally
> > unregister the hwmon device when the SFP module is remove, otherwise
> > we access data structures which don't exist.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> > Fixes: 1323061a018a ("net: phy: sfp: Add HWMON support for module sensors")
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/phy/sfp.c | 7 +++++--
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
> > index 52fffb98fde9..23705ffae6bb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
> > @@ -1098,8 +1098,11 @@ static int sfp_hwmon_insert(struct sfp *sfp)
> >  
> >  static void sfp_hwmon_remove(struct sfp *sfp)
> >  {
> > -	hwmon_device_unregister(sfp->hwmon_dev);
> > -	kfree(sfp->hwmon_name);
> > +	if (!PTR_ERR_OR_NULL(sfp->hwmon_dev)) {
> 
> I believe this should be IS_ERR_OR_NULL(), there is no PTR_ERR_OR_NULL()
> in the Linux tree AFAICT.

Yep.

Please ignore this patch.

       Andrew