From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 00:14:27 +0000 (+1100) Subject: ibm_newemac: Fix ZMII refcounting bug X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc5~34 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=968530643a0685caced9dfd6f72f20d5e7bc8fbb;p=linux-2.6 ibm_newemac: Fix ZMII refcounting bug When using ZMII for MDIO only (such as 440GX with RGMII for data and ZMII for MDIO), the ZMII code would fail to properly refcount, thus triggering a BUG_ON(). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Acked-by: Stefan Roese Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/zmii.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/zmii.c index 2219ec2740..0f8cfbc0c6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/zmii.c +++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/zmii.c @@ -83,12 +83,14 @@ int __devinit zmii_attach(struct of_device *ofdev, int input, int *mode) ZMII_DBG(dev, "init(%d, %d)" NL, input, *mode); - if (!zmii_valid_mode(*mode)) + if (!zmii_valid_mode(*mode)) { /* Probably an EMAC connected to RGMII, * but it still may need ZMII for MDIO so * we don't fail here. */ + dev->users++; return 0; + } mutex_lock(&dev->lock);