From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: remove irq param to fix crash in fixed_phy_add() Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 14:20:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20160517.142034.611823602956859056.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1463397356-5656-1-git-send-email-rabin.vincent@axis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1463397356-5656-1-git-send-email-rabin.vincent@axis.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: rabin.vincent@axis.com Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, f.fainelli@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, rabinv@axis.com List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org From: Rabin Vincent Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 13:15:56 +0200 > From: Rabin Vincent > > Since e7f4dc3536a ("mdio: Move allocation of interrupts into core"), > platforms which call fixed_phy_add() before fixed_mdio_bus_init() is > called (for example, because the platform code and the fixed_phy driver > use the same initcall level) crash in fixed_phy_add() since the > ->mii_bus is not allocated. > > Also since e7f4dc3536a, these interrupts are initalized to polling by > default. All callers of both fixed_phy_register() and fixed_phy_add() > pass PHY_POLL for the irq argument, so we can fix these crashes by > simply removing the irq parameter, since the default is correct for all > users. > > Fixes: e7f4dc3536a400 ("mdio: Move allocation of interrupts into core") > Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent Applied.