From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, andrew@lunn.ch,
Mao Wenan <maowenan@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: Fix lack of reference count on PHY driver
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 10:22:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201102208.GM27312@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170201024643.2050-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 06:46:43PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> From: Mao Wenan <maowenan@huawei.com>
>
> There is currently no reference count being held on the PHY driver,
> which makes it possible to remove the PHY driver module while the PHY
> state machine is running and polling the PHY. This could cause crashes
> similar to this one to show up:
Does this really solve the problem? What if you use sysfs to unbind the
driver but without removing the module?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-01 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-01 2:46 [PATCH net] net: phy: Fix lack of reference count on PHY driver Florian Fainelli
2017-02-01 10:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2017-02-01 10:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-02-01 18:55 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-02-01 18:59 ` David Miller
2017-02-01 19:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-02-02 2:56 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-02-02 2:55 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-02-03 2:54 ` David Miller
2017-02-03 3:47 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-02-03 4:00 ` David Miller
2017-02-03 9:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-02-03 21:04 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-02-08 16:03 ` [net] " Robin Murphy
2017-02-08 16:23 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-09 1:01 ` maowenan
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