From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Cooper Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/13] net: mv643xx_eth: use phy_disconnect instead of phy_detach Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:00:53 -0400 Message-ID: <20130529200053.GA31290@titan.lakedaemon.net> References: <1369154510-4927-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <1369855975-21489-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <1369855975-21489-2-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Lunn , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lennert Buytenhek , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, David Miller , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org To: Sebastian Hesselbarth Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1369855975-21489-2-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Sebastian, On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:32:43PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > Using a separated mdio bus driver with mvmdio, phy_detach on network device > removal will not stop the phy and finally lead to NULL pointer dereference > in mvmdio due to non-existent network device. Use phy_disconnect instead > to properly stop phy device from accessing network device prior removal of > the network device. > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth > --- > Note: I observed this behavior when removing a modular mv643xx_eth driver > after attaching it to a phy handled by (also modular) mvmdio. The mvmdio > conversion has been done in > > commit c3a07134e6aa5b93a37f72ffa3d11fadf72bf757 > ("mv643xx_eth: convert to use the Marvell Orion MDIO driver") > > and should go back any -stable version with that commit (propably only 3.9) It looks like just v3.10-rcX, here. thx, Jason.