This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
stmmac: platform: Fix signedness bug in stmmac_probe_config_dt()
to the 5.13-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:
stmmac-platform-fix-signedness-bug-in-stmmac_probe_c.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit cf2b18efc7f5047dd5e00043045e3ff97441a159
Author: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 7 15:53:35 2021 +0800
stmmac: platform: Fix signedness bug in stmmac_probe_config_dt()
[ Upstream commit eca81f09145d765c21dd8fb1ba5d874ca255c32c ]
The "plat->phy_interface" variable is an enum and in this context GCC
will treat it as an unsigned int so the error handling is never
triggered.
Fixes: b9f0b2f634c0 ("net: stmmac: platform: fix probe for ACPI devices")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
index a696ada013eb..cad9e466353f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
@@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ stmmac_probe_config_dt(struct platform_device *pdev, u8 *mac)
struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node;
struct plat_stmmacenet_data *plat;
struct stmmac_dma_cfg *dma_cfg;
+ int phy_mode;
void *ret;
int rc;
@@ -414,10 +415,11 @@ stmmac_probe_config_dt(struct platform_device *pdev, u8 *mac)
eth_zero_addr(mac);
}
- plat->phy_interface = device_get_phy_mode(&pdev->dev);
- if (plat->phy_interface < 0)
- return ERR_PTR(plat->phy_interface);
+ phy_mode = device_get_phy_mode(&pdev->dev);
+ if (phy_mode < 0)
+ return ERR_PTR(phy_mode);
+ plat->phy_interface = phy_mode;
plat->interface = stmmac_of_get_mac_mode(np);
if (plat->interface < 0)
plat->interface = plat->phy_interface;
