Otherwise the clocks are not enabled and reading registers will BUG. Fixes: 1e30b8d755b8 ("net: smsc911x: Make Runtime PM handling more fine-grained") Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1: * patch is not a revert but a proper fix this time drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c index a2e511912e6a..67cb5eb9c716 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c @@ -1838,8 +1838,12 @@ smsc911x_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) static struct net_device_stats *smsc911x_get_stats(struct net_device *dev) { struct smsc911x_data *pdata = netdev_priv(dev); - smsc911x_tx_update_txcounters(dev); - dev->stats.rx_dropped += smsc911x_reg_read(pdata, RX_DROP); + + if (netif_running(dev)) { + smsc911x_tx_update_txcounters(dev); + dev->stats.rx_dropped += smsc911x_reg_read(pdata, RX_DROP); + } + return &dev->stats; } -- 2.30.2