This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() to the 4.9-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: staging-octeon-call-set_netdev_dev.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e7c9a3d9e432200fd4c17855c2c23ac784d6e833 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:13:24 -0800 Subject: staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> commit e7c9a3d9e432200fd4c17855c2c23ac784d6e833 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c @@ -776,6 +776,7 @@ static int cvm_oct_probe(struct platform /* 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; @@ -820,6 +821,7 @@ static int cvm_oct_probe(struct platform } /* 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, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/staging-octeon-call-set_netdev_dev.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html