4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> commit df384d435a5c034c735df3d9ea87a03172c59b56 upstream. gcc-7 and probably earlier versions get confused by this function and print a harmless warning: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c: In function 'bcm_enet_open': drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c:1130:3: error: 'phydev' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] This adds an initialization for the 'phydev' variable when it is unused and changes the check to test for that NULL pointer to make it clear that we always pass a valid pointer here. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c @@ -913,6 +913,8 @@ static int bcm_enet_open(struct net_devi priv->old_link = 0; priv->old_duplex = -1; priv->old_pause = -1; + } else { + phydev = NULL; } /* mask all interrupts and request them */ @@ -1083,7 +1085,7 @@ static int bcm_enet_open(struct net_devi enet_dmac_writel(priv, priv->dma_chan_int_mask, ENETDMAC_IRMASK, priv->tx_chan); - if (priv->has_phy) + if (phydev) phy_start(phydev); else bcm_enet_adjust_link(dev); @@ -1126,7 +1128,7 @@ out_freeirq: free_irq(dev->irq, dev); out_phy_disconnect: - if (priv->has_phy) + if (phydev) phy_disconnect(phydev); return ret;