On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 08:59:54PM +0200, Sebastian Pöhn wrote: > A zero pointer deref on priv->phydev->link was causing oops on our systems. > Might be related to improper configuration but we should fail gracefully here ;-) > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Poehn <sebastian.poehn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c > index 83b1030..bc8c503 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c > @@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ static void cvm_oct_adjust_link(struct net_device *dev) > struct octeon_ethernet *priv = netdev_priv(dev); > cvmx_helper_link_info_t link_info; > > + if(!priv->phydev) > + return ; Please always run your patches through the scripts/checkpatch.pl tool so that maintainers don't have to point out the obvious coding syle errors by hand each time :) Care to try again? Also, how was phydev NULL? What was causing that? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
