Hi, On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 01:10:51PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:28:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > 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 :) > > Also it's whitespace damaged and doesn't apply. > > > > > Care to try again? > > > > Also, how was phydev NULL? What was causing that? > > To me it looks like phydev is always NULL. It's initialized in cvm_oct_phy_setup_device(): priv->phydev = of_phy_connect(dev, phy_node, cvm_oct_adjust_link, 0, PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_GMII); So maybe there is a chance that cvm_oct_adjust_link() callback gets called already before the function returns? Getting a copy of the original OOPS report/crash dump could help to confirm this. A. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel