[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "net: cpsw: fix null dereference at probe" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: cpsw: fix null dereference at probe

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.25.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 768e4972edb2b576e7f33fea73c8bfcc318ca8be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 10:09:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 30/66] net: cpsw: fix null dereference at probe

commit 6954cc1f238199e971ec905c5cc87120806ac981 upstream.

Fix null-pointer dereference at probe when the mdio platform device is
missing (e.g. when it has been disabled in DT).

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c
index 3b1be52..06d2e09 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c
@@ -1119,6 +1119,10 @@ static int cpsw_probe_dt(struct cpsw_platform_data *data,
 		mdio_node = of_find_node_by_phandle(be32_to_cpup(parp));
 		phyid = be32_to_cpup(parp+1);
 		mdio = of_find_device_by_node(mdio_node);
+		if (!mdio) {
+			pr_err("Missing mdio platform device\n");
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
 		snprintf(slave_data->phy_id, sizeof(slave_data->phy_id),
 			 PHY_ID_FMT, mdio->name, phyid);

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