This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: phy: micrel: Fix incorrect variable type in micrel
to the 5.17-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:
net-phy-micrel-fix-incorrect-variable-type-in-micrel.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 12a4d677b1c34717443470c1492fe520638ef39a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 22:45:19 +0800
Subject: net: phy: micrel: Fix incorrect variable type in micrel
From: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@xxxxxxxx>
commit 12a4d677b1c34717443470c1492fe520638ef39a upstream.
In lanphy_read_page_reg, calling __phy_read() might return a negative
error code. Use 'int' to check the error code.
Fixes: 7c2dcfa295b1 ("net: phy: micrel: Add support for LAN8804 PHY")
Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509144519.2343399-1-wanjiabing@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/micrel.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
@@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ static int ksz886x_cable_test_get_status
static int lanphy_read_page_reg(struct phy_device *phydev, int page, u32 addr)
{
- u32 data;
+ int data;
phy_lock_mdio_bus(phydev);
__phy_write(phydev, LAN_EXT_PAGE_ACCESS_CONTROL, page);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wanjiabing@xxxxxxxx are
queue-5.17/net-phy-micrel-fix-incorrect-variable-type-in-micrel.patch
