Re: [PATCH 4.1 108/159] stmmac: fix check for phydev being open

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello.

On 9/26/2015 11:55 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> 4.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

   NAK on the same grounds as the 3.x patches. of_phy_connect() isn't called 
yet. If the patch has been committed already, it's OK -- it should do no harm.

> ------------------
>
> From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit dfc50fcaad574e5c8c85cbc83eca1426b2413fa4 upstream.
>
> Current check of phydev with IS_ERR(phydev) may make not much sense
> because of_phy_connect() returns NULL on failure instead of error value.
>
> Still for checking result of phy_connect() IS_ERR() makes perfect sense.
>
> So let's use combined check IS_ERR_OR_NULL() that covers both cases.
>
> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@xxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c |    5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> @@ -829,8 +829,11 @@ static int stmmac_init_phy(struct net_de
>
>   	phydev = phy_connect(dev, phy_id_fmt, &stmmac_adjust_link, interface);
>
> -	if (IS_ERR(phydev)) {
> +	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(phydev)) {
>   		pr_err("%s: Could not attach to PHY\n", dev->name);
> +		if (!phydev)
> +			return -ENODEV;
> +
>   		return PTR_ERR(phydev);
>   	}

MBR, Sergei

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