Re: [PATCH] net: smsc911x: Fix unload crash when link is up

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue Mar 06 2018 - 10:24:09 EST


> This is caused by the mdiobus being unregistered/free'd
> and the code in phy_detach() attempting to manipulate mdio
> related structures from unregister_netdev() calling close()
>
> To fix this, we delay the mdiobus teardown until after
> the netdev is deregistered.
>
> Reported-by: Matt Sealey <matt.sealey@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c
> index 012fb66eed8d..f0afb88d7bc2 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c
> @@ -2335,14 +2335,14 @@ static int smsc911x_drv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> pdata = netdev_priv(dev);
> BUG_ON(!pdata);
> BUG_ON(!pdata->ioaddr);
> - WARN_ON(dev->phydev);

Hi Jeremy

I assume this WARN_ON() also fired? It would be good to comment about
why you removed it, that the code now handles that case.

Apart from that

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew