hello, On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 09:52 +0530, Siddharth Vadapalli wrote: [...] > +static void am65_cpsw_disable_serdes_phy(struct am65_cpsw_common *common) > +{ > + struct device_node *node, *port_np; > + struct device *dev = common->dev; > + const char *name = "serdes-phy"; > + struct phy *phy; > + > + node = of_get_child_by_name(dev->of_node, "ethernet-ports"); > + > + for_each_child_of_node(node, port_np) { > + phy = devm_of_phy_get(dev, port_np, name); The above will try to allocate some memory and can fail. Even if the the following code will handle a NULL ptr, the phy will not be disabled. I think it's better if you cache the serdes phy ptr in am65_cpsw_init_serdes_phy() and you use such reference here, without resorting to devm_of_phy_get(). Cheers, Paolo