On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> On 05/11/2020 at 15:37, Parshuram Thombare wrote:
> > This patch fixes NULL pointer dereference due to NULL pcs_config
> > in pcs_ops.
> >
> > Fixes: e4e143e26ce8 ("net: macb: add support for high speed interface")
>
> What is this tag? In linux-next? As patch is not yet in Linus' tree, you
> cannot refer to it like this.
>
> > Reported-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.fe...@microchip.com>
> > Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/11/4/482
>
> You might need to change this to a "lore" link:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/2db854c7-9ffb-328a-f346-f68982723...@microchip.com/
>
> > Signed-off-by: Parshuram Thombare <pthom...@cadence.com>
>
> This fix looks a bit weird to me. What about proposing a patch to Russell
> like the chunk that you already identified in function
> phylink_major_config()?
No thanks. macb is currently the only case where a stub implementation
for pcs_config() is required, which only occurs because the only
appropriate protocol supported there is SGMII and not 1000base-X as
well.
> > ---
> > drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> > index b7bc160..130a5af 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> > @@ -633,6 +633,15 @@ static void macb_pcs_an_restart(struct phylink_pcs
> > *pcs)
> > /* Not supported */
> > }
> >
> > +static int macb_pcs_config(struct phylink_pcs *pcs,
> > + unsigned int mode,
> > + phy_interface_t interface,
> > + const unsigned long *advertising,
> > + bool permit_pause_to_mac)
> > +{
> > + return 0;
> > +}
>
> Russell, is the requirement for this void function intended?
In response to v3 of the patch on 21st October, I said, and I quote:
I think all that needs to happen is a pcs_ops for the non-10GBASE-R
mode which moves macb_mac_pcs_get_state() and macb_mac_an_restart()
to it, and implements a stub pcs_config(). So it should be simple
to do.
Obviously, my advice was not followed, I didn't spot the lack of it
in v4 (sorry), and the result is the NULL pointer oops.
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