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 4.19-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-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 69aefb62f46aec2234dba20842db29567eab341f 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 46181559d1f1..4a3c0870c8e4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600-regmap.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600-regmap.c @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ 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(); @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ 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();