The Octeon driver calls into PHYLIB which now checks for net_device->dev.parent, so make sure we do set it before calling into any MDIO/PHYLIB related function. Fixes: ec988ad78ed6 ("phy: Don't increment MDIO bus refcount unless it's a different owner") Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c index 8130dfe89745..4971aa54756a 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c @@ -770,6 +770,7 @@ static int cvm_oct_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) /* Initialize the device private structure. */ struct octeon_ethernet *priv = netdev_priv(dev); + SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &pdev->dev); dev->netdev_ops = &cvm_oct_pow_netdev_ops; priv->imode = CVMX_HELPER_INTERFACE_MODE_DISABLED; priv->port = CVMX_PIP_NUM_INPUT_PORTS; @@ -816,6 +817,7 @@ static int cvm_oct_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) } /* Initialize the device private structure. */ + SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &pdev->dev); priv = netdev_priv(dev); priv->netdev = dev; priv->of_node = cvm_oct_node_for_port(pip, interface, -- 2.9.3 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel