This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: usb: dm9601: fix wrong return value in dm9601_mdio_read
to the 6.7-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-usb-dm9601-fix-wrong-return-value-in-dm9601_mdio.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b6da1cced14e133c063c76c0283309bb82170a99
Author: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Feb 25 00:20:06 2024 +0100
net: usb: dm9601: fix wrong return value in dm9601_mdio_read
[ Upstream commit c68b2c9eba38ec3f60f4894b189090febf4d8d22 ]
The MII code does not check the return value of mdio_read (among
others), and therefore no error code should be sent. A previous fix to
the use of an uninitialized variable propagates negative error codes,
that might lead to wrong operations by the MII library.
An example of such issues is the use of mii_nway_restart by the dm9601
driver. The mii_nway_restart function does not check the value returned
by mdio_read, which in this case might be a negative number which could
contain the exact bit the function checks (BMCR_ANENABLE = 0x1000).
Return zero in case of error, as it is common practice in users of
mdio_read to avoid wrong uses of the return value.
Fixes: 8f8abb863fa5 ("net: usb: dm9601: fix uninitialized variable use in dm9601_mdio_read")
Signed-off-by: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240225-dm9601_ret_err-v1-1-02c1d959ea59@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c b/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
index 99ec1d4a972db..8b6d6a1b3c2ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static int dm9601_mdio_read(struct net_device *netdev, int phy_id, int loc)
err = dm_read_shared_word(dev, 1, loc, &res);
if (err < 0) {
netdev_err(dev->net, "MDIO read error: %d\n", err);
- return err;
+ return 0;
}
netdev_dbg(dev->net,
