From 63edaf647607795a065e6956a79c47f500dc8447 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:40:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Au1x00: fix crash when trying register_netdev()
Andreas Lohre reported that the driver crashes when trying
to register_netdev(), he sugessted to move dev->netdev_ops initialization
before calling register_netdev(), it worked for him.
Reported-by: Andreas Lohre <alohre@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
drivers/net/au1000_eth.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c b/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
index ce6f1ac25df8..3f4b4300f533 100644
--- a/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
@@ -1088,7 +1088,14 @@ static struct net_device * au1000_probe(int port_num)
return NULL;
}
- if ((err = register_netdev(dev)) != 0) {
+ dev->base_addr = base;
+ dev->irq = irq;
+ dev->netdev_ops = &au1000_netdev_ops;
+ SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(dev, &au1000_ethtool_ops);
+ dev->watchdog_timeo = ETH_TX_TIMEOUT;
+
+ err = register_netdev(dev);
+ if (err != 0) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cannot register net device, error %d\n",
DRV_NAME, err);
free_netdev(dev);
@@ -1209,12 +1216,6 @@ static struct net_device * au1000_probe(int port_num)
aup->tx_db_inuse[i] = pDB;
}
- dev->base_addr = base;
- dev->irq = irq;
- dev->netdev_ops = &au1000_netdev_ops;
- SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(dev, &au1000_ethtool_ops);
- dev->watchdog_timeo = ETH_TX_TIMEOUT;
-
/*
* The boot code uses the ethernet controller, so reset it to start
* fresh. au1000_init() expects that the device is in reset state.
--
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