The patch titled drivers/net/smsc: timeout reaches -1 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is smsc-timeout-reaches-1.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/net/smsc: timeout reaches -1 From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx> With a postfix decrement timeouts will reach -1 rather than 0, so the error path is not taken. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <steve.glendinning@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/smsc911x.c | 2 +- drivers/net/smsc9420.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/smsc911x.c~smsc-timeout-reaches-1 drivers/net/smsc911x.c --- a/drivers/net/smsc911x.c~smsc-timeout-reaches-1 +++ a/drivers/net/smsc911x.c @@ -1624,7 +1624,7 @@ static int smsc911x_eeprom_send_cmd(stru do { msleep(1); e2cmd = smsc911x_reg_read(pdata, E2P_CMD); - } while ((e2cmd & E2P_CMD_EPC_BUSY_) && (timeout--)); + } while ((e2cmd & E2P_CMD_EPC_BUSY_) && (--timeout)); if (!timeout) { SMSC_TRACE(DRV, "TIMED OUT"); diff -puN drivers/net/smsc9420.c~smsc-timeout-reaches-1 drivers/net/smsc9420.c --- a/drivers/net/smsc9420.c~smsc-timeout-reaches-1 +++ a/drivers/net/smsc9420.c @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ static int smsc9420_eeprom_send_cmd(stru do { msleep(1); e2cmd = smsc9420_reg_read(pd, E2P_CMD); - } while ((e2cmd & E2P_CMD_EPC_BUSY_) && (timeout--)); + } while ((e2cmd & E2P_CMD_EPC_BUSY_) && (--timeout)); if (!timeout) { smsc_info(HW, "TIMED OUT"); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch acpi-get_throttling_state-cannot-be-larger-state_count.patch drm-fix-lock_test_with_return-macro.patch dvb-negative-internal-sub_range-wont-get-noticed.patch atm-bitwise-or-has-higher-precedence-than.patch drivers-net-tg3c-fix-confusion.patch smsc-timeout-reaches-1.patch scsi-ncr53c8xx-div-reaches-1.patch paride-pgc-xs-confusion.patch b43-bitwise-or-has-higher-precedence-than.patch mm-get_nid_for_pfn-returns-int.patch frv-duplicate-output_buffer-of-e03.patch frv-duplicate-output_buffer-of-e03-checkpatch-fixes.patch alpha-fix-macros.patch m68k-count-can-reach-51-not-50.patch m68k-count-can-reach-51-not-50-checkpatch-fixes.patch spi-limit-reaches-1-tested-0.patch rtc-wm8350-retries-will-reach-1.patch fbdev-newport-newport_wait-return-0-on-timeout.patch drivers-video-omap-hwa742c-div-reaches-max_clk_div.patch arkfb-fix-misplaced-parentheses.patch uvesafb-bitwise-or-has-higher-precedence-than.patch vesafb-bitwise-or-has-higher-precedence-than.patch ufs-sector_t-cannot-be-negative.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html