This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled stmmac: dwmac-loongson: Make sure MDIO is initialized before use to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: stmmac-dwmac-loongson-make-sure-mdio-is-initialized-.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 61a783c75539205c58dd0fc00686eb08588484ba Author: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Dec 11 18:33:11 2023 +0800 stmmac: dwmac-loongson: Make sure MDIO is initialized before use [ Upstream commit e87d3a1370ce9f04770d789bcf7cce44865d2e8d ] Generic code will use mdio. If it is not initialized before use, the kernel will Oops. Fixes: 30bba69d7db4 ("stmmac: pci: Add dwmac support for Loongson") Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Feiyang Chen <chenfeiyang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-loongson.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-loongson.c index a25c187d31853..49c7aa86faaa8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-loongson.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-loongson.c @@ -68,17 +68,15 @@ static int loongson_dwmac_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id if (!plat) return -ENOMEM; + plat->mdio_bus_data = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, + sizeof(*plat->mdio_bus_data), + GFP_KERNEL); + if (!plat->mdio_bus_data) + return -ENOMEM; + plat->mdio_node = of_get_child_by_name(np, "mdio"); if (plat->mdio_node) { dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Found MDIO subnode\n"); - - plat->mdio_bus_data = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, - sizeof(*plat->mdio_bus_data), - GFP_KERNEL); - if (!plat->mdio_bus_data) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto err_put_node; - } plat->mdio_bus_data->needs_reset = true; }