From: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 62522ef3c399996f6c8120bfd14b94280bc9f490 upstream. When configured in fixed link, the DaVinci emac driver sets the priv->phydev to NULL and further ioctl calls to the phy_mii_ioctl() causes the kernel to crash. Cc: Brian Hutchinson <b.hutchman@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 1bb6aa56bb38 ("net: davinci_emac: Add support for fixed-link PHY") Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c @@ -1512,7 +1512,10 @@ static int emac_devioctl(struct net_devi /* TODO: Add phy read and write and private statistics get feature */ - return phy_mii_ioctl(priv->phydev, ifrq, cmd); + if (priv->phydev) + return phy_mii_ioctl(priv->phydev, ifrq, cmd); + else + return -EOPNOTSUPP; } static int match_first_device(struct device *dev, void *data)