Re: [PATCH net] net: macb: do not copy the mac address if NULL

[Nicolas.Ferre]

On 21/06/2019 at 17:26, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> This patch fixes the MAC address setup in the probe. The MAC address
> retrieved using of_get_mac_address was checked for not containing an
> error, but it may also be NULL which wasn't tested. Fix it by replacing
> IS_ERR with IS_ERR_OR_NULL.
> 
> Fixes: 541ddc66d665 ("net: macb: support of_get_mac_address new ERR_PTR error")
> Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

It could be good to have this fix for 5.2-final...

Thanks!

> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> index 1241a2a73438..1cd1f2c36d6f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> @@ -4304,7 +4304,7 @@ static int macb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	if (PTR_ERR(mac) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
>   		err = -EPROBE_DEFER;
>   		goto err_out_free_netdev;
> -	} else if (!IS_ERR(mac)) {
> +	} else if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mac)) {
>   		ether_addr_copy(bp->dev->dev_addr, mac);
>   	} else {
>   		macb_get_hwaddr(bp);
> 


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Nicolas Ferre