RE: net: macb: linux-next: null pointer dereference in phylink_major_config()

Hi Russell, It seems apart from changes in driver, we also need check for NULL pcs_config below or make pcs_config as mandatory method for registering pcs_ops. 456 if (pl->pcs_ops) { 457 err = pl->pcs_ops->pcs_config(pl->pcs, pl->cur_link_an_mode, 458

RE: net: macb: linux-next: null pointer dereference in phylink_major_config()

bez...@microchip.com; santiago.este...@microchip.com; >and...@lunn.ch; da...@davemloft.net; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; >li...@armlinux.org.uk; harini.kata...@xilinx.com; michal.si...@xilinx.com >Subject: net: macb: linux-next: null pointer dereference in >phylink_major_config() > >

net: macb: linux-next: null pointer dereference in phylink_major_config()

Hi, Heads-up on this kernel Oops that happened and has been observed on linux-next since 20201103 and was not existing in 20201030. I didn't went further until now but wanted to report it as soon as possible. Could it be related to newly included patch e4e143e26ce8 ("net: macb: add support for