From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: 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>,
Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCHv2] net: emac: Fix NULL pointer dereference in emac_probe
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:34:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260618023405.415644-1-rosenp@gmail.com> (raw)
Move devm_request_irq() after devm_platform_ioremap_resource() so that
dev->emacp is mapped before the interrupt handler can fire. An early
interrupt hitting emac_irq() would dereference the NULL dev->emacp and
crash.
Also remove redundant error message. devm_platform_ioremap_resource()
already returns an error message with dev_err_probe().
Fixes: dcc34ef7c834 ("net: ibm: emac: manage emac_irq with devm")
Assisted-by: Opencode:Big-Pickle
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
---
v2: remove redundant error message.
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c | 13 ++++++-------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
index 80f0c8985845..62ee1b70c3e7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
@@ -3044,6 +3044,12 @@ static int emac_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
if (err)
goto err_gone;
+ dev->emacp = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(ofdev, 0);
+ if (IS_ERR(dev->emacp)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(dev->emacp);
+ goto err_gone;
+ }
+
/* Setup error IRQ handler */
dev->emac_irq = platform_get_irq(ofdev, 0);
if (dev->emac_irq < 0) {
@@ -3061,13 +3067,6 @@ static int emac_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
ndev->irq = dev->emac_irq;
- dev->emacp = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(ofdev, 0);
- if (IS_ERR(dev->emacp)) {
- dev_err(&ofdev->dev, "can't map device registers");
- err = PTR_ERR(dev->emacp);
- goto err_gone;
- }
-
/* Wait for dependent devices */
err = emac_wait_deps(dev);
if (err)
--
2.54.0
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