Hi Florian,

Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> writes:

> It is perfectly possible to have non zero indexed switches being present
> in a DSA switch tree, in such a case, we will be deferencing a NULL
> pointer while dsa_cpu_port_ethtool_{setup,restore}. Be more defensive
> and ensure that dst->ds[0] is valid before doing anything with it.
>
> Fixes: 0c73c523cf73 ("net: dsa: Initialize CPU port ethtool ops per tree")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.dide...@savoirfairelinux.com>

The patch is correct since we are already using dst->ds[0] here.

But we should stop using that and use dst->cpu_switch instead, because
the switch with ID 0 won't necessary be the CPU switch. Now that the
Ethernet switch chips are true Linux devices, they are registered in
order depending on their bus/address. So in a setup like this:

       ,--MDIO--@4--------@2--
      |         |         |
    [CPU] <-> [swA] <-> [swB]

swB will have index 0 and swA will have index 1. Please correct me if
I'm wrong.

Thanks,

        Vivien

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