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From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [PATCH] net: ravb: Fix NULL pointer access
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 23:30:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e786bdb3-e5c9-c214-5249-9f12714fd266@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <TYBPR01MB530979323BFA3681AC59F83686210@TYBPR01MB5309.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com>

On 9/16/20 5:43 PM, Biju Das wrote:
> Hi Marek,

Hi,

[...]

>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ravb.c
>>> @@ -438,7 +438,8 @@ static int ravb_config(struct udevice *dev)
>>>
>>>  writel(mask, eth->iobase + RAVB_REG_ECMR);
>>>
>>> -phy->drv->writeext(phy, -1, 0x02, 0x08, (0x0f << 5) | 0x19);
>>> +if (phy->drv->writeext)
>>> +phy->drv->writeext(phy, -1, 0x02, 0x08, (0x0f << 5) | 0x19);
>>
>> Shouldn't we rather move this into the PHY driver altogether ?
> 
> If I fix, the phydriver with empty function, compiler will complain about unused parameter right?
> What about other phy's which doesn't have this callback.

I mean, should we not move this entire code which configures something
in a Micrel PHY, and is specific to Micrel PHY, into the Micrel PHY
driver and remove the whole call of writeext from this ethernet driver ?

>> I _think_ this might be specific to some Micrel PHY.
> As mentioned in the commit message, it is seen with Realtek phy(rtl8211e)  and crash seen on Hihope RZ/G2M board.
Right, because that writeext seems to be micrel-phy specific.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-15 14:10 [PATCH] net: ravb: Fix NULL pointer access Biju Das
2020-09-15 14:23 ` Michal Simek
2020-09-16 13:53 ` Marek Vasut
2020-09-16 15:43   ` Biju Das
2020-09-16 21:30     ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2020-09-18 15:26       ` Biju Das
2020-09-19  2:48         ` Marek Vasut
2020-09-19 11:14           ` Biju Das
2020-09-19 12:44             ` Marek Vasut
2020-09-19 18:14               ` Biju Das
2020-09-19 19:12                 ` Marek Vasut
2020-09-20  7:34                   ` Biju Das
2020-09-21 16:26                     ` Marek Vasut

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