From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mcarlson@broadcom.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6/stable] tg3: Restrict phy ioctl access
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:11:34 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110217.141134.115921673.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297810270-4690-1-git-send-email-mcarlson@broadcom.com>
From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:10 -0800
> If management firmware is present and the device is down, the firmware
> will assume control of the phy. If a phy access were allowed from the
> host, it will collide with firmware phy accesses, resulting in
> unpredictable behavior. This patch fixes the problem by disallowing phy
> accesses during the problematic condition.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-17 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-15 22:51 [PATCH net-2.6/stable] tg3: Restrict phy ioctl access Matt Carlson
2011-02-16 22:39 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-02-16 23:06 ` Matt Carlson
2011-02-16 23:11 ` David Miller
2011-02-16 23:52 ` Matt Carlson
2011-02-17 0:00 ` Greg KH
2011-02-17 0:11 ` Matt Carlson
2011-02-17 0:10 ` David Miller
2011-02-17 0:39 ` Matt Carlson
2011-02-17 0:56 ` David Miller
2011-02-17 22:11 ` David Miller [this message]
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