From a76420092d3d9f2e52ad7469c210c0e2fa962fe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vince Bridgers Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:58:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Altera TSE: Fix Panic in probe routine when phy probe fails This patch addresses a fault in the error recovery path of the probe routine where the netdev structure was not being unregistered properly leading to a panic only when the phy probe failed. Abbreviated panic stack seen is as follows: (free_netdev+0xXX) from (altera_tse_probe+0xXX) (altera_tse_probe+0xXX) from (platform_drv_probe+0xXX) (platform_drv_probe+0xXX) from (driver_probe_device+0xXX) (driver_probe_device+0xXX) from (__driver_attach+0xXX) (__driver_attach+0xXX) from (bus_for_each_dev+0xXX) (bus_for_each_dev+0xXX) from (driver_attach+0xXX) (driver_attach+0xXX) from (bus_add_driver+0xXX) (bus_add_driver+0xXX) from (driver_register+0xXX) (driver_register+0xXX) from (__platform_driver_register+0xXX) (__platform_driver_register+0xXX) from (altera_tse_driver_init+0xXX) (altera_tse_driver_init+0xXX) from (do_one_initcall+0xXX) (do_one_initcall+0xXX) from (kernel_init_freeable+0xXX) (kernel_init_freeable+0xXX) from (kernel_init+0xXX) (kernel_init+0xXX) from (ret_from_fork+0xXX) Signed-off-by: Vince Bridgers Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed