From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Stigge Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:44:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c: Call mdiobus_unregister before mdiobus_free Message-Id: <508D6F17.4000405@antcom.de> List-Id: References: <1351440721-9121-1-git-send-email-peter.senna@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1351440721-9121-1-git-send-email-peter.senna@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Senna Tschudin Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, djduanjiong@gmail.com, aletes.xgr@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On 28/10/12 17:12, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: > Based on commit b27393aecf66199f5ddad37c302d3e0cfadbe6c0 > > Calling mdiobus_free without calling mdiobus_unregister causes > BUG_ON(). This patch fixes the issue. > > The semantic patch that found this issue(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/): > // > @@ > expression E; > @@ > ... when != mdiobus_unregister(E); > > + mdiobus_unregister(E); > mdiobus_free(E); > // > > Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin Tested-by: Roland Stigge Thanks for the patch! Roland > --- > This problem is somewhat mystifying. If the patch is correct, there were > probably many OOPSese caused by not calling mdiobus_unregister... > Reporting anyway... > > drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c > index 53743f7..af8b414 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c > @@ -1524,6 +1524,7 @@ static int lpc_eth_drv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) > pldat->dma_buff_base_p); > free_irq(ndev->irq, ndev); > iounmap(pldat->net_base); > + mdiobus_unregister(pldat->mii_bus); > mdiobus_free(pldat->mii_bus); > clk_disable(pldat->clk); > clk_put(pldat->clk);