[PATCH 4/8] ibm_newemac: Fix ZMII refcounting bug
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 21 17:06:42 EST 2007
When using ZMII for MDIO only (such as 440GX with RGMII for data and ZMII for
MDIO), the ZMII code would fail to properly refcount, thus triggering a
BUG_ON().
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
---
drivers/net/ibm_newemac/zmii.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-work/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/zmii.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/zmii.c 2007-11-08 15:45:32.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-work/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/zmii.c 2007-11-08 15:46:21.000000000 +1100
@@ -83,12 +83,14 @@ int __devinit zmii_attach(struct of_devi
ZMII_DBG(dev, "init(%d, %d)" NL, input, *mode);
- if (!zmii_valid_mode(*mode))
+ if (!zmii_valid_mode(*mode)) {
/* Probably an EMAC connected to RGMII,
* but it still may need ZMII for MDIO so
* we don't fail here.
*/
+ dev->users++;
return 0;
+ }
mutex_lock(&dev->lock);
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