This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: encx24j600: Add parentheses to fix precedence to the 5.4-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: net-encx24j600-add-parentheses-to-fix-precedence.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8fad2b7e7032f4cb76505d40a03c5c4c60c75e9b Author: Valentina Goncharenko <goncharenko.vp@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Dec 1 20:34:07 2022 +0300 net: encx24j600: Add parentheses to fix precedence [ Upstream commit 167b3f2dcc62c271f3555b33df17e361bb1fa0ee ] In functions regmap_encx24j600_phy_reg_read() and regmap_encx24j600_phy_reg_write() in the conditions of the waiting cycles for filling the variable 'ret' it is necessary to add parentheses to prevent wrong assignment due to logical operations precedence. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Fixes: d70e53262f5c ("net: Microchip encx24j600 driver") Signed-off-by: Valentina Goncharenko <goncharenko.vp@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600-regmap.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600-regmap.c index e2528633c09a..8c07c3c3c00c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600-regmap.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600-regmap.c @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ static int regmap_encx24j600_phy_reg_read(void *context, unsigned int reg, goto err_out; usleep_range(26, 100); - while ((ret = regmap_read(ctx->regmap, MISTAT, &mistat) != 0) && + while (((ret = regmap_read(ctx->regmap, MISTAT, &mistat)) != 0) && (mistat & BUSY)) cpu_relax(); @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static int regmap_encx24j600_phy_reg_write(void *context, unsigned int reg, goto err_out; usleep_range(26, 100); - while ((ret = regmap_read(ctx->regmap, MISTAT, &mistat) != 0) && + while (((ret = regmap_read(ctx->regmap, MISTAT, &mistat)) != 0) && (mistat & BUSY)) cpu_relax();