This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled stmmac: fix check for phydev being open
to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt8. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ >From ba01d7935fb4710b33ccc217b8e9a9cce88e1d75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brod...@synopsys.com> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 18:01:08 +0300 Subject: stmmac: fix check for phydev being open 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.shtyl...@cogentembedded.com> Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavall...@st.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrod...@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <ka...@canonical.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c index 8834b82..5b9d3f7 100644 --- 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_device *dev) 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); } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/