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net: smsc911x: Fix crash if loopback test fails

On certain hardware in certain situations loopback test fails and the
driver gets removed. During mdiobus_unregister() instance of PHY driver
gets disposed. But by this time it has already been started using
phy_connect_direct().

PHY driver uses DELAYED_WORK in order to maintain its state. Attempting
to dispose the driver without calling phy_disconnect() causes deallocation
of DELAYED_WORK being active. This shortly causes a bad crash in timer
code.

The problem can be discovered by enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS and
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE

Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pavel Fedin 9 years ago
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      drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c

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drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c

@@ -1052,6 +1052,7 @@ static int smsc911x_mii_probe(struct net_device *dev)
 #ifdef USE_PHY_WORK_AROUND
 	if (smsc911x_phy_loopbacktest(dev) < 0) {
 		SMSC_WARN(pdata, hw, "Failed Loop Back Test");
+		phy_disconnect(phydev);
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 	SMSC_TRACE(pdata, hw, "Passed Loop Back Test");