[PATCH net v2] net: phy: fix a return path in get_phy_c45_ids()
From: Charles Perry
Date: Thu Apr 09 2026 - 09:40:00 EST
The return value of phy_c45_probe_present() is stored in "ret", not
"phy_reg", fix this. "phy_reg" always has a positive value if we reach
this return path (since it would have returned earlier otherwise), which
means that the original goal of the patch of not considering -ENODEV
fatal wasn't achieved.
Fixes: 17b447539408 ("net: phy: c45 scanning: Don't consider -ENODEV fatal")
Signed-off-by: Charles Perry <charles.perry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
---
Notes:
Changes in v2:
- Collect Andrew's Reviewed-by
- Send to net instead of net-next
- fix one typo in the commit message
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 81984d4ebb7c..810327fa886a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -973,8 +973,8 @@ static int get_phy_c45_ids(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr,
/* returning -ENODEV doesn't stop bus
* scanning
*/
- return (phy_reg == -EIO ||
- phy_reg == -ENODEV) ? -ENODEV : -EIO;
+ return (ret == -EIO ||
+ ret == -ENODEV) ? -ENODEV : -EIO;
if (!ret)
continue;
--
2.47.3