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From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marcin Wojtas <marcin.s.wojtas@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCHv2 net-next] net: mvneta: support EPROBE_DEFER when reading MAC address
Date: Fri,  6 Mar 2026 19:17:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260307031709.640141-1-rosenp@gmail.com> (raw)

If nvmem loads after the ethernet driver, mac address assignments will
not take effect. of_get_ethdev_address returns EPROBE_DEFER in such a
case so we need to handle that to avoid eth_hw_addr_random.

Add extra goto section to just free stats as they are allocated right
above.

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
---
 v2: free stats on probe defer.
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
index d627858d2802..5bdf5020ec69 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
@@ -5620,6 +5620,8 @@ static int mvneta_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}

 	err = of_get_ethdev_address(dn, dev);
+	if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+		goto err_free_stats;
 	if (!err) {
 		mac_from = "device tree";
 	} else {
@@ -5755,6 +5757,7 @@ static int mvneta_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 				       1 << pp->id);
 		mvneta_bm_put(pp->bm_priv);
 	}
+err_free_stats:
 	free_percpu(pp->stats);
 err_free_ports:
 	free_percpu(pp->ports);
--
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-07  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-07  3:17 Rosen Penev [this message]
2026-03-10 16:30 ` [PATCHv2 net-next] net: mvneta: support EPROBE_DEFER when reading MAC address Simon Horman
2026-03-11  2:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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