From: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 9a6a0dea16177ccaecc116f560232e63bec115f1 ] The call to of_get_mac_address() can return -EPROBE_DEFER, for instance when the MAC address is read from a NVMEM driver that did not probe yet. Cc: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c index cce90b5925d93..70060c51854fd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c @@ -1405,6 +1405,8 @@ static struct dm9000_plat_data *dm9000_parse_dt(struct device *dev) mac_addr = of_get_mac_address(np); if (!IS_ERR(mac_addr)) ether_addr_copy(pdata->dev_addr, mac_addr); + else if (PTR_ERR(mac_addr) == -EPROBE_DEFER) + return ERR_CAST(mac_addr); return pdata; } -- 2.20.1