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