Re: net: phy: realtek: regression, kernel null pointer dereference

From: Serge Semin
Date: Mon May 13 2019 - 09:03:11 EST


On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 02:51:03PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Ahh, I see. Then using lock-less version of the access methods must fix the
> > problem. You could try something like this:
>
> Kunihiko Hayash is way ahead of you.
>
> Andrew

I wouldn't say that five hours is "way ahead". But if something fixes a bug in
a patch it would be good to be have the original author being Cc'ed.

Vincente, here is a link to the patch, that fixes the problem.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/43

-Segey