On 28/10/12 17:12, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> Based on commit b27393aecf66199f5ddad37c302d3e0cfadbe6c0
> 
> Calling mdiobus_free without calling mdiobus_unregister causes
> BUG_ON(). This patch fixes the issue.
> 
> The semantic patch that found this issue(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression E;
> @@
>   ... when != mdiobus_unregister(E);
> 
> + mdiobus_unregister(E);
>   mdiobus_free(E);
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <[email protected]>

Tested-by: Roland Stigge <[email protected]>

Thanks for the patch!

Roland

> ---
> This problem is somewhat mystifying. If the patch is correct, there were
> probably many OOPSese caused by not calling mdiobus_unregister...
> Reporting anyway...
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c 
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c
> index 53743f7..af8b414 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c
> @@ -1524,6 +1524,7 @@ static int lpc_eth_drv_remove(struct platform_device 
> *pdev)
>                                 pldat->dma_buff_base_p);
>       free_irq(ndev->irq, ndev);
>       iounmap(pldat->net_base);
> +     mdiobus_unregister(pldat->mii_bus);
>       mdiobus_free(pldat->mii_bus);
>       clk_disable(pldat->clk);
>       clk_put(pldat->clk);

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