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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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