Re: [PATCH] dsa: Fix conversion from host device to mii bus

From: Alexander Duyck
Date: Fri Oct 17 2014 - 19:02:34 EST


On 10/17/2014 12:30 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
Commit b4d2394d01bc ("dsa: Replace mii_bus with a generic host device")
replaces mii_bus with a generic host_dev, and introduces
dsa_host_dev_to_mii_bus() to support conversion from host_dev to mii_bus.
However, in some cases it uses to_mii_bus to perform that conversion.
Since host_dev is not the phy bus device but typically a platform device,
this fails and results in a crash with the affected drivers.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffff81781d35>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x75/0x100
PGD 406783067 PUD 406784067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810a538b>] ? pick_next_task_fair+0x61b/0x880
[<ffffffff81781de3>] mutex_lock+0x23/0x37
[<ffffffff81533244>] mdiobus_read+0x34/0x60
[<ffffffff8153b95a>] __mv88e6xxx_reg_read+0x8a/0xa0
[<ffffffff8153b9bc>] mv88e6xxx_reg_read+0x4c/0xa0

Fixes: b4d2394d01bc ("dsa: Replace mii_bus with a generic host device")
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The fix looks good to me.

Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxx>
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