Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 5/9] net: phylink: Add phylink_create_raw

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 01:20:40AM +0000, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> +	if (pl->ops) {
> +		pl->ops->mac_link_up(ndev, pl->link_an_mode,
>  			     pl->phy_state.interface,
>  			     pl->phydev);
>  
> +		netif_carrier_on(ndev);
>  
> +		netdev_info(ndev,
> +			    "Link is Up - %s/%s - flow control %s\n",
> +			    phy_speed_to_str(link_state.speed),
> +			    phy_duplex_to_str(link_state.duplex),
> +			    phylink_pause_to_str(link_state.pause));
> +	} else {
> +		blocking_notifier_call_chain(&pl->notifier_chain,
> +					     PHYLINK_MAC_LINK_UP, &info);
> +		phydev_info(pl->phydev,
> +			    "Link is Up - %s/%s - flow control %s\n",
> +			    phy_speed_to_str(link_state.speed),
> +			    phy_duplex_to_str(link_state.duplex),
> +			    phylink_pause_to_str(link_state.pause));
> +	}

So if we don't have pl->ops, what happens when we call phydev_info()
with a NULL phydev, which is a very real possibility: one of phylink's
whole points is to support dynamic presence of a PHY.

What will happen in that case is this will oops, due to dereferencing
an offset NULL pointer via:

#define phydev_info(_phydev, format, args...)	\
	dev_info(&_phydev->mdio.dev, format, ##args)

You can't just decide that if there's no netdev, we will be guaranteed
a phy.

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