This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: mv643xx_eth: potential NULL dereference in
to the 3.12-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:
net-mv643xx_eth-potential-null-dereference-in.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Dec 5 16:16:37 PST 2013
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:52:47 +0300
Subject: net: mv643xx_eth: potential NULL dereference in
probe()
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
We assume that "mp->phy" can be NULL a couple lines before the
dereference.
Fixes: 1cce16d37d0f ('net: mv643xx_eth: Add missing phy_addr_set in DT mode')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
@@ -2890,7 +2890,8 @@ static int mv643xx_eth_probe(struct plat
PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_GMII);
if (!mp->phy)
err = -ENODEV;
- phy_addr_set(mp, mp->phy->addr);
+ else
+ phy_addr_set(mp, mp->phy->addr);
} else if (pd->phy_addr != MV643XX_ETH_PHY_NONE) {
mp->phy = phy_scan(mp, pd->phy_addr);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/net-mv643xx_eth-potential-null-dereference-in.patch
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