This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

sfp: fix sfp-bus oops when removing socket/upstream

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: sfp-fix-sfp-bus-oops-when-removing-socket-upstream.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Sat Jan 13 10:51:05 CET 2018

From: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:15:17 +0000 Subject: sfp: fix sfp-bus oops when removing socket/upstream

From: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk

[ Upstream commit 0b2122e4934c7783d336397864e34ee53aad0965 ]

When we remove a socket or upstream, and the other side isn't registered, we dereference a NULL pointer, causing a kernel oops. Fix this.

Fixes: ce0aa27ff3f6 ("sfp: add sfp-bus to bridge between network devices and sfp cages") Signed-off-by: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c @@ -359,7 +359,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sfp_register_upstream) void sfp_unregister_upstream(struct sfp_bus *bus) { rtnl_lock(); - sfp_unregister_bus(bus); + if (bus->sfp) + sfp_unregister_bus(bus); bus->upstream = NULL; bus->netdev = NULL; rtnl_unlock(); @@ -464,7 +465,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sfp_register_socket); void sfp_unregister_socket(struct sfp_bus *bus) { rtnl_lock(); - sfp_unregister_bus(bus); + if (bus->netdev) + sfp_unregister_bus(bus); bus->sfp_dev = NULL; bus->sfp = NULL; bus->socket_ops = NULL;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk are

queue-4.14/sfp-fix-sfp-bus-oops-when-removing-socket-upstream.patch queue-4.14/phylink-ensure-we-report-link-down-when-los-asserted.patch