From: Atsushi Nemoto <atsushi.nemoto@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 17b42a20d7ca59377788c6a2409e77569570cc10 ] The connect_local_phy should return NULL (not negative errno) on error, since its caller expects it. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <atsushi.nemoto@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Thor Thayer <thor.thayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c index 2eb6404755b1..c1b599c52195 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c @@ -706,8 +706,10 @@ static struct phy_device *connect_local_phy(struct net_device *dev) phydev = phy_connect(dev, phy_id_fmt, &altera_tse_adjust_link, priv->phy_iface); - if (IS_ERR(phydev)) + if (IS_ERR(phydev)) { netdev_err(dev, "Could not attach to PHY\n"); + phydev = NULL; + } } else { int ret; -- 2.19.1