From: David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>,
Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 08/10] net: ethernet: aeroflex: move setting of netops to fix crash
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 10:26:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261008022656.3592191-9-mmyangfl@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261008022656.3592191-1-mmyangfl@gmail.com>
greth_of_probe() calls greth_mdio_init(), which connects the PHY,
before dev->netdev_ops is assigned. phy_attach_direct() ->
phy_link_topo_add_phy() reads dev->netdev_ops through
netdev_need_ops_lock() since the commit in question, so probing crashes
with a NULL pointer dereference when CONFIG_NET_SHAPER is enabled.
Assign netdev_ops before the PHY attach, as was done for emac in commit
7c9f391ec89c ("net: emac: move setting of netops to fix crash").
Fixes: ded86da4bbb7 ("net: ethtool: relax ethnl_req_get_phydev() locking assertion")
Signed-off-by: David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/aeroflex/greth.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/aeroflex/greth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/aeroflex/greth.c
index a593adc16c78..fccb67beebee 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/aeroflex/greth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/aeroflex/greth.c
@@ -1421,6 +1421,8 @@ static int greth_of_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
/* Check if MAC can handle MDIO interrupts */
greth->mdio_int_en = (tmp >> 26) & 1;
+ dev->netdev_ops = &greth_netdev_ops;
+
err = greth_mdio_init(greth);
if (err) {
if (netif_msg_probe(greth))
@@ -1498,7 +1500,6 @@ static int greth_of_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
dev->flags &= ~IFF_MULTICAST;
}
- dev->netdev_ops = &greth_netdev_ops;
dev->ethtool_ops = &greth_ethtool_ops;
err = register_netdev(dev);
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-08 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-08 2:26 [PATCH net 00/10] net: Move " David Yang
2026-10-08 2:26 ` [PATCH net 01/10] net: hisilicon: hisi_femac: " David Yang
2026-10-08 11:51 ` Jijie Shao
2026-10-08 2:26 ` [PATCH net 02/10] net: hisilicon: hip04_eth: " David Yang
2026-10-08 8:30 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-10-08 2:26 ` [PATCH net 03/10] net: ethernet: actions: " David Yang
2026-10-08 2:26 ` [PATCH net 04/10] net: ethernet: adi: " David Yang
2026-10-09 13:03 ` Regus, Ciprian
2026-10-08 2:26 ` [PATCH net 05/10] net: mv643xx: move " David Yang
2026-10-08 2:26 ` [PATCH net 06/10] net: au1000: " David Yang
2026-10-08 8:31 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-10-08 2:26 ` [PATCH net 07/10] net: ethoc: " David Yang
2026-10-08 2:26 ` David Yang [this message]
2026-10-09 14:34 ` [PATCH net 08/10] net: ethernet: aeroflex: " Andreas Larsson
2026-10-08 2:26 ` [PATCH net 09/10] net: ti: icssm-prueth: Move " David Yang
2026-10-08 2:26 ` [PATCH net 10/10] microchip: lan865x: move " David Yang
2026-10-08 8:32 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-10-08 12:10 ` [PATCH net 00/10] net: Move " Jijie Shao
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