[PATCH 5.4 035/168] net: ethernet: dm9000: Handle -EPROBE_DEFER in dm9000_parse_dt()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 10 2020 - 08:49:21 EST


From: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 9a6a0dea16177ccaecc116f560232e63bec115f1 ]

The call to of_get_mac_address() can return -EPROBE_DEFER, for instance
when the MAC address is read from a NVMEM driver that did not probe yet.

Cc: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
index cce90b5925d93..70060c51854fd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
@@ -1405,6 +1405,8 @@ static struct dm9000_plat_data *dm9000_parse_dt(struct device *dev)
mac_addr = of_get_mac_address(np);
if (!IS_ERR(mac_addr))
ether_addr_copy(pdata->dev_addr, mac_addr);
+ else if (PTR_ERR(mac_addr) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ return ERR_CAST(mac_addr);

return pdata;
}
--
2.20.1