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Date:   Thu, 7 Jun 2018 18:54:00 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@rockwellcollins.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: phy: Check phy_driver ready before accessing
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 10:53:46AM -0500, Brandon Maier wrote:
> Since a phy_device is added to the global mdio_bus list during
> phy_device_register(), but a phy_device's phy_driver doesn't get
> attached until phy_probe(). It's possible of_phy_find_device() in
> xgmiitorgmii will return a valid phy with a NULL phy_driver. Leading to
> a NULL pointer access during the memcpy().

Hi Brandon

FYI: net-next is closed at the moment. Please resubmit these in two
weeks time.

      Andrew