RE: [PATCH v2 0/1] drivers: net: cpsw: Fix NULL pointer dereference with two slave PHYs
From: Andrew Goodbody
Date: Wed Apr 20 2016 - 04:49:49 EST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Goodbody <andrew.goodbody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:53:25 +0100
>
> > This is a fix for a NULL pointer dereference from cpsw which is
> > triggered by having two slave PHYs attached to a cpsw network device.
> > The problem is due to only maintaining a single reference to a PHY
> > node in the prive data which gets overwritten by the second PHY probe.
> > So move the PHY node reference to the individual slave data so that there
> is now one per slave.
> >
> > v1 had a problem that data->slaves was used before it had been filled
> > in
>
> I already applied v1 the other day, so you need to send me a relative patch
> rather than a whole new one.
>
> Thanks.
Sorry, I had no notification that this had happened. However I thought that the plan was to revert v1 and go with David Rivshin's patch instead. I'll see if I can create a revert in a little while.
Andrew