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authorNathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@ni.com>2016-10-07 10:13:22 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-10-07 23:55:59 -0400
commitfa6114d4bde70152765ba1c35fed4fcd8481faf6 (patch)
tree4ff4790b98de09d7a43ecaf26a00d64464b1c0d0 /drivers
parent912e27e85e070596ed4964ebde29fa9781390f2a (diff)
net: macb: NULL out phydev after removing mdio bus
To ensure the dev->phydev pointer is not used after becoming invalid in mdiobus_unregister, set it to NULL. This happens when removing the macb driver without first taking its interface down, since unregister_netdev will end up calling macb_close. Signed-off-by: Xander Huff <xander.huff@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Brad Mouring <brad.mouring@ni.com> Reviewed-by: Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
index 63144bb413d1..b32444a3ed79 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
@@ -3117,6 +3117,7 @@ static int macb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (dev->phydev)
phy_disconnect(dev->phydev);
mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
+ dev->phydev = NULL;
mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
/* Shutdown the PHY if there is a GPIO reset */