This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: lan966x: Fix return value check for vcap_get_rule() to the 6.5-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-lan966x-fix-return-value-check-for-vcap_get_rule.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 994b4104fc0c1190e5606088113fd3c41c924c6d Author: Ruan Jinjie <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Aug 18 13:05:04 2023 +0800 net: lan966x: Fix return value check for vcap_get_rule() [ Upstream commit ab104318f63997113b0ce7ac288e51359925ed79 ] As Simon Horman suggests, update vcap_get_rule() to always return an ERR_PTR() and update the error detection conditions to use IS_ERR(), so use IS_ERR() to fix the return value issue. Fixes: 72df3489fb10 ("net: lan966x: Add ptp trap rules") Signed-off-by: Ruan Jinjie <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx> 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/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_ptp.c index 266a21a2d1246..1da2b1f82ae93 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_ptp.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_ptp.c @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static int lan966x_ptp_add_trap(struct lan966x_port *port, int err; vrule = vcap_get_rule(lan966x->vcap_ctrl, rule_id); - if (vrule) { + if (!IS_ERR(vrule)) { u32 value, mask; /* Just modify the ingress port mask and exit */ @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static int lan966x_ptp_del_trap(struct lan966x_port *port, int err; vrule = vcap_get_rule(lan966x->vcap_ctrl, rule_id); - if (!vrule) + if (IS_ERR(vrule)) return -EEXIST; vcap_rule_get_key_u32(vrule, VCAP_KF_IF_IGR_PORT_MASK, &value, &mask);