[PATCH net 09/10] net: ti: icssm-prueth: Move setting of netops to fix crash

Maxime Chevallier maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com
Thu Oct 8 01:32:05 PDT 2026



On 10/8/26 04:26, David Yang wrote:
> icssm_prueth_netdev_init() calls of_phy_get_and_connect() before
> ndev->netdev_ops is assigned. phy_attach_direct() ->
> phy_link_topo_add_phy() reads dev->netdev_ops through
> netdev_need_ops_lock() since the commit in question, so probing crashes
> with a NULL pointer dereference when CONFIG_NET_SHAPER is enabled.
> 
> Assign netdev_ops before the PHY attach, as was done for emac in commit
> 7c9f391ec89c ("net: emac: move setting of netops to fix crash").
> 
> Fixes: ded86da4bbb7 ("net: ethtool: relax ethnl_req_get_phydev() locking assertion")
> Signed-off-by: David Yang <mmyangfl at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com>

Thanks,

Maxime

> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssm/icssm_prueth.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssm/icssm_prueth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssm/icssm_prueth.c
> index b7e94244355a..b42c98e861e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssm/icssm_prueth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssm/icssm_prueth.c
> @@ -1563,6 +1563,8 @@ static int icssm_prueth_netdev_init(struct prueth *prueth,
>  	}
>  	ether_addr_copy(emac->mac_addr, ndev->dev_addr);
>  
> +	ndev->netdev_ops = &emac_netdev_ops;
> +
>  	/* connect PHY */
>  	emac->phydev = of_phy_get_and_connect(ndev, eth_node,
>  					      icssm_emac_adjust_link);
> @@ -1590,7 +1592,6 @@ static int icssm_prueth_netdev_init(struct prueth *prueth,
>  	}
>  
>  	ndev->dev.of_node = eth_node;
> -	ndev->netdev_ops = &emac_netdev_ops;
>  
>  	netif_napi_add(ndev, &emac->napi, icssm_emac_napi_poll);
>  




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