From: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.cior...@nxp.com>
[ 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.cior...@nxp.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org>
---
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 c433be573e0d..ed7e3c70b511 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -729,6 +729,9 @@ 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;
@@ -1067,6 +1070,9 @@ 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
