From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33168 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756570AbdAIIgb (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2017 03:36:31 -0500 Subject: Patch "staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: f.fainelli@gmail.com, aaro.koskinen@iki.fi, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 09:36:24 +0100 Message-ID: <148395098424435@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: staging-octeon-call-set_netdev_dev.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From e7c9a3d9e432200fd4c17855c2c23ac784d6e833 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Fainelli Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:13:24 -0800 Subject: staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() From: Florian Fainelli commit e7c9a3d9e432200fd4c17855c2c23ac784d6e833 upstream. The Octeon driver calls into PHYLIB which now checks for net_device->dev.parent, so make sure we do set it before calling into any MDIO/PHYLIB related function. Fixes: ec988ad78ed6 ("phy: Don't increment MDIO bus refcount unless it's a different owner") Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c @@ -776,6 +776,7 @@ static int cvm_oct_probe(struct platform /* Initialize the device private structure. */ struct octeon_ethernet *priv = netdev_priv(dev); + SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &pdev->dev); dev->netdev_ops = &cvm_oct_pow_netdev_ops; priv->imode = CVMX_HELPER_INTERFACE_MODE_DISABLED; priv->port = CVMX_PIP_NUM_INPUT_PORTS; @@ -820,6 +821,7 @@ static int cvm_oct_probe(struct platform } /* Initialize the device private structure. */ + SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &pdev->dev); priv = netdev_priv(dev); priv->netdev = dev; priv->of_node = cvm_oct_node_for_port(pip, interface, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from f.fainelli@gmail.com are queue-4.9/staging-octeon-call-set_netdev_dev.patch