4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ 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 02921d877c08a..aa1d1f5339d2a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
@@ -714,8 +714,10 @@ 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
