This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ath9k: Fix error check in ath9k_hw_read_revisions() for PCI devices to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ath9k-fix-error-check-in-ath9k_hw_read_revisions-for.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 689b2930a620c7f92e61a97d827f9f5d56c934cc Author: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 26 19:08:19 2021 +0100 ath9k: Fix error check in ath9k_hw_read_revisions() for PCI devices [ Upstream commit 7dd9a40fd6e0d0f1fd8e1931c007e080801dfdce ] When the error check in ath9k_hw_read_revisions() was added, it checked for -EIO which is what ath9k_regread() in the ath9k_htc driver uses. However, for plain ath9k, the register read function uses ioread32(), which just returns -1 on error. So if such a read fails, it still gets passed through and ends up as a weird mac revision in the log output. Fix this by changing ath9k_regread() to return -1 on error like ioread32() does, and fix the error check to look for that instead of -EIO. Fixes: 2f90c7e5d094 ("ath9k: Check for errors when reading SREV register") Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210326180819.142480-1-toke@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c index 3932e3d14f3d..379e843fbe0d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static unsigned int ath9k_regread(void *hw_priv, u32 reg_offset) if (unlikely(r)) { ath_dbg(common, WMI, "REGISTER READ FAILED: (0x%04x, %d)\n", reg_offset, r); - return -EIO; + return -1; } return be32_to_cpu(val); diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c index d50e2e8bd998..25c3e5d3fe62 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static bool ath9k_hw_read_revisions(struct ath_hw *ah) srev = REG_READ(ah, AR_SREV); - if (srev == -EIO) { + if (srev == -1) { ath_err(ath9k_hw_common(ah), "Failed to read SREV register"); return false;