Unfortunately sometimes ->probe() may fail. The commit b9663b7ca6ff ("net: stmmac: Enable SERDES power up/down sequence") messed up with error handling and thus:
[ 12.811311] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 12.811993] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:9937! Fix this by properly crafted error path. Fixes: b9663b7ca6ff ("net: stmmac: Enable SERDES power up/down sequence") Cc: Voon Weifeng <weifeng.v...@intel.com> Cc: Ong Boon Leong <boon.leong....@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c index 565da6498c846e..ff22f274aa43d6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c @@ -4991,7 +4991,7 @@ int stmmac_dvr_probe(struct device *device, priv->plat->bsp_priv); if (ret < 0) - return ret; + goto error_serdes_powerup; } #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS @@ -5000,6 +5000,8 @@ int stmmac_dvr_probe(struct device *device, return ret; +error_serdes_powerup: + unregister_netdev(ndev); error_netdev_register: phylink_destroy(priv->phylink); error_phy_setup: -- 2.26.2