It could lead to error happen because the variable res is not updated if the call to sr_share_read_word returns an error. In this particular case error code was returned and res stayed uninitialized. Same issue also applies to sr_read_reg. This can be avoided by checking the return value of sr_share_read_word and sr_read_reg, and propagating the error if the read operation failed. Found by code review. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: c9b37458e956 ("USB2NET : SR9700 : One chip USB 1.1 USB2NET SR9700Device Driver Support") Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make24@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v4: - added a check for sr_read_reg() as suggestions. Changes in v3: - added Cc stable line as suggestions. Changes in v2: - modified the subject as suggestions. --- drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c b/drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c index 0a662e42ed96..cb7d2f798fb4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ static int sr_mdio_read(struct net_device *netdev, int phy_id, int loc) struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(netdev); __le16 res; int rc = 0; + int err; if (phy_id) { netdev_dbg(netdev, "Only internal phy supported\n"); @@ -189,11 +190,17 @@ static int sr_mdio_read(struct net_device *netdev, int phy_id, int loc) if (loc == MII_BMSR) { u8 value; - sr_read_reg(dev, SR_NSR, &value); + err = sr_read_reg(dev, SR_NSR, &value); + if (err < 0) + return err; + if (value & NSR_LINKST) rc = 1; } - sr_share_read_word(dev, 1, loc, &res); + err = sr_share_read_word(dev, 1, loc, &res); + if (err < 0) + return err; + if (rc == 1) res = le16_to_cpu(res) | BMSR_LSTATUS; else -- 2.25.1