This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
broadcom: b44: Use b44_writephy() return value
to the 6.4-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:
broadcom-b44-use-b44_writephy-return-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 064123940dc50127f32705621a2b63766dc4c1c8
Author: Artem Chernyshev <artem.chernyshev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Aug 15 00:00:30 2023 +0300
broadcom: b44: Use b44_writephy() return value
[ Upstream commit 9944d203fa63721b87eee84a89f7275dc3d25c05 ]
Return result of b44_writephy() instead of zero to
deal with possible error.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Signed-off-by: Artem Chernyshev <artem.chernyshev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c
index 392ec09a1d8a6..3e4fb3c3e8342 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c
@@ -1793,11 +1793,9 @@ static int b44_nway_reset(struct net_device *dev)
b44_readphy(bp, MII_BMCR, &bmcr);
b44_readphy(bp, MII_BMCR, &bmcr);
r = -EINVAL;
- if (bmcr & BMCR_ANENABLE) {
- b44_writephy(bp, MII_BMCR,
- bmcr | BMCR_ANRESTART);
- r = 0;
- }
+ if (bmcr & BMCR_ANENABLE)
+ r = b44_writephy(bp, MII_BMCR,
+ bmcr | BMCR_ANRESTART);
spin_unlock_irq(&bp->lock);
return r;
