[PATCH] pasemi_mac: ethtool get settings fix
Valentine Barshak
vbarshak at ru.mvista.com
Tue Oct 6 00:27:56 EST 2009
Not all pasemi mac interfaces can have a phy attached.
For example, XAUI has no phy and phydev is NULL for it.
In this case ethtool get settings causes kernel crash.
Fix it by returning -EOPNOTSUPP if there's no PHY attached.
Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak at ru.mvista.com>
---
drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff -pruN linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c linux-2.6/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c 2009-02-14 03:23:08.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/pasemi_mac_ethtool.c 2009-10-05 16:21:52.000000000 +0400
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ pasemi_mac_ethtool_get_settings(struct n
struct pasemi_mac *mac = netdev_priv(netdev);
struct phy_device *phydev = mac->phydev;
+ if (!phydev)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
return phy_ethtool_gset(phydev, cmd);
}
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