From: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 00:19:35 +0200
> When using wicked with a lan78xx device attached to the system, we > end up with ethtool commands issued on the device before an ifup > got issued. That lead to the following crash: > ... > The culprit is quite simple: The driver tries to access the phy left and > right, > but only actually has a working reference to it when the device is up. > > The fix thus is quite simple too: Get a reference to the phy on probe already > and keep it even when the device is going down. > > With this patch applied, I can successfully run wicked on my system and bring > the interface up and down as many times as I want, without getting NULL > pointer > dereferences in between. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> Applied, thank you.
