We spotted a bug recently during a review where a driver was unregistering a bus that wasn't registered, which would trigger this BUG_ON(). Let's handle that situation more gracefully, and just print a warning and return. Reported-by: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c index dadf75ff3ab9..6045ad3def12 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c @@ -607,7 +607,8 @@ void mdiobus_unregister(struct mii_bus *bus) struct mdio_device *mdiodev; int i; - BUG_ON(bus->state != MDIOBUS_REGISTERED); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(bus->state != MDIOBUS_REGISTERED)) + return; bus->state = MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED; for (i = 0; i < PHY_MAX_ADDR; i++) { -- 2.30.2