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

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[ Upstream commit 17b42a20d7ca59377788c6a2409e77569570cc10 ]

The connect_local_phy should return NULL (not negative errno) on
error, since its caller expects it.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thor Thayer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
index a0eee72186957..e306342506f1f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
@@ -692,8 +692,10 @@ static struct phy_device *connect_local_phy(struct 
net_device *dev)
 
                phydev = phy_connect(dev, phy_id_fmt, &altera_tse_adjust_link,
                                     priv->phy_iface);
-               if (IS_ERR(phydev))
+               if (IS_ERR(phydev)) {
                        netdev_err(dev, "Could not attach to PHY\n");
+                       phydev = NULL;
+               }
 
        } else {
                int ret;
-- 
2.19.1



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