[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 032/158] net: phy: Check against net_device being NULL

Sasha Levin
2019-07-15T14:20:15Z

From: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>

[ Upstream commit 82c76aca81187b3d28a6fb3062f6916450ce955e ]

In general, we don't want MAC drivers calling phy_attach_direct with the
net_device being NULL. Add checks against this in all the functions
calling it: phy_attach() and phy_connect_direct().

Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 8a96d985a52f..6144146aec29 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -757,6 +757,9 @@ int phy_connect_direct(struct net_device *dev, struct phy_device *phydev,
{
int rc;

+ if (!dev)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
rc = phy_attach_direct(dev, phydev, phydev->dev_flags, interface);
if (rc)
return rc;
@@ -1098,6 +1101,9 @@ struct phy_device *phy_attach(struct net_device *dev, const char *bus_id,
struct device *d;
int rc;

+ if (!dev)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
/* Search the list of PHY devices on the mdio bus for the
* PHY with the requested name
*/
--
2.20.1