This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
e1000e: Fix error path in link detection
to the 4.4-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:
e1000e-fix-error-path-in-link-detection.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c4c40e51f9c32c6dd8adf606624c930a1c4d9bbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:36:23 -0700
Subject: e1000e: Fix error path in link detection
From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx>
commit c4c40e51f9c32c6dd8adf606624c930a1c4d9bbb upstream.
In case of error from e1e_rphy(), the loop will exit early and "success"
will be set to true erroneously.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/phy.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/phy.c
@@ -1744,6 +1744,7 @@ s32 e1000e_phy_has_link_generic(struct e
s32 ret_val = 0;
u16 i, phy_status;
+ *success = false;
for (i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
/* Some PHYs require the MII_BMSR register to be read
* twice due to the link bit being sticky. No harm doing
@@ -1763,16 +1764,16 @@ s32 e1000e_phy_has_link_generic(struct e
ret_val = e1e_rphy(hw, MII_BMSR, &phy_status);
if (ret_val)
break;
- if (phy_status & BMSR_LSTATUS)
+ if (phy_status & BMSR_LSTATUS) {
+ *success = true;
break;
+ }
if (usec_interval >= 1000)
msleep(usec_interval / 1000);
else
udelay(usec_interval);
}
- *success = (i < iterations);
-
return ret_val;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bpoirier@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/e1000e-fix-error-path-in-link-detection.patch
queue-4.4/e1000e-separate-signaling-for-link-check-link-up.patch
queue-4.4/e1000e-fix-return-value-test.patch