From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> commit c10a485c3de5ccbf1fff65a382cebcb2730c6b06 upstream. The PHY structure should be locked while copying information out if it, otherwise there is no guarantee of self consistency. Without the lock the PHY state machine could be updating the structure. Fixes: 2d55173e71b0 ("phy: add generic function to support ksetting support") Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_ethtool_ksettings_set) void phy_ethtool_ksettings_get(struct phy_device *phydev, struct ethtool_link_ksettings *cmd) { + mutex_lock(&phydev->lock); linkmode_copy(cmd->link_modes.supported, phydev->supported); linkmode_copy(cmd->link_modes.advertising, phydev->advertising); linkmode_copy(cmd->link_modes.lp_advertising, phydev->lp_advertising); @@ -334,6 +335,7 @@ void phy_ethtool_ksettings_get(struct ph cmd->base.autoneg = phydev->autoneg; cmd->base.eth_tp_mdix_ctrl = phydev->mdix_ctrl; cmd->base.eth_tp_mdix = phydev->mdix; + mutex_unlock(&phydev->lock); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_ethtool_ksettings_get);