[ Upstream commit 82c76aca81187b3d28a6fb3062f6916450ce955e ] In general, we don't want MAC drivers calling phy_attach_direct with the net_device being NULL. Add checks against this in all the functions calling it: phy_attach() and phy_connect_direct(). Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@xxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c index 5048a6df6a8e..5c2c72b1ef8b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c @@ -673,6 +673,9 @@ int phy_connect_direct(struct net_device *dev, struct phy_device *phydev, { int rc; + if (!dev) + return -EINVAL; + rc = phy_attach_direct(dev, phydev, phydev->dev_flags, interface); if (rc) return rc; @@ -965,6 +968,9 @@ struct phy_device *phy_attach(struct net_device *dev, const char *bus_id, struct device *d; int rc; + if (!dev) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + /* Search the list of PHY devices on the mdio bus for the * PHY with the requested name */ -- 2.20.1