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* [PATCH] pasemi_mac: ethtool get settings fix
@ 2009-10-01 22:27 Valentine Barshak
  2009-10-05 12:59 ` Valentine
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Valentine Barshak @ 2009-10-01 22:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-dev; +Cc: netdev

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 |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.21.orig/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c	2008-11-06 18:10:38.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.21/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c	2008-11-19 19:24:28.000000000 +0300
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ 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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2009-10-01 22:27 [PATCH] pasemi_mac: ethtool get settings fix Valentine Barshak
2009-10-05 12:59 ` Valentine
2009-10-05 13:27   ` Valentine Barshak
2009-10-06 16:10     ` Olof Johansson
2009-10-07 10:43       ` David Miller
2009-10-05 13:31   ` [PATCH] pasemi_mac: ethtool set settings support Valentine Barshak
2009-10-06 16:11     ` Olof Johansson
2009-10-12 11:25       ` David Miller

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