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Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: Fix race between stmmac_drv_probe and stmmac_open

From David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: Fix race between stmmac_drv_probe and stmmac_open
Date 2016-12-28 03:40 +0100
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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 18:23:06 -0800

> There is currently a small window during which the network device registered by
> stmmac can be made visible, yet all resources, including and clock and MDIO bus
> have not had a chance to be set up, this can lead to the following error to
> occur:
 ...
> Fix this by making sure that register_netdev() is the last thing being done,
> which guarantees that the clock and the MDIO bus are available.
> 
> Fixes: 4bfcbd7abce2 ("stmmac: Move the mdio_register/_unregister in probe/remove")
> Reported-by: Kweh, Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Florian.

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[PATCH v2] net: stmmac: bug fix to synchronize stmmac_open and stmmac_dvr_probe "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> - 2016-12-27 07:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: bug fix to synchronize stmmac_open and  stmmac_dvr_probe Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-12-27 11:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: bug fix to synchronize stmmac_open and  stmmac_dvr_probe David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-12-27 17:50 +0100
    RE: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: bug fix to synchronize stmmac_open and  stmmac_dvr_probe "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> - 2016-12-28 02:50 +0100
      [PATCH net] net: stmmac: Fix race between stmmac_drv_probe and stmmac_open Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-12-28 03:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: Fix race between stmmac_drv_probe and  stmmac_open David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-12-28 03:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: bug fix to synchronize stmmac_open and stmmac_dvr_probe Kishan Sandeep <sandeepkishan108@gmail.com> - 2016-12-28 13:00 +0100
        RE: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: bug fix to synchronize stmmac_open and  stmmac_dvr_probe "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> - 2016-12-29 01:30 +0100
    RE: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: bug fix to synchronize stmmac_open and  stmmac_dvr_probe "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> - 2016-12-28 06:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: bug fix to synchronize stmmac_open and  stmmac_dvr_probe Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-12-28 19:50 +0100
        RE: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: bug fix to synchronize stmmac_open and  stmmac_dvr_probe "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> - 2016-12-29 01:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: bug fix to synchronize stmmac_open and  stmmac_dvr_probe Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-12-29 01:50 +0100

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