linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 054/123] net: stmmac: manage errors returned by of_get_mac

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Date:   Tue, 13 Aug 2019 22:09:38 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 054/123] net: stmmac: manage errors returned by of_get_mac_address()

From: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>

[ Upstream commit 195b2919ccd7ffcaf6b6bbcb39444a53ab8308c7 ]

Commit d01f449c008a ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address")
added support for reading the MAC address from an nvmem-cell. This
required changing the logic to return an error pointer upon failure.

If stmmac is loaded before the nvmem provider driver then
of_get_mac_address() return an error pointer with -EPROBE_DEFER.

Propagate this error so the stmmac driver will be probed again after the
nvmem provider driver is loaded.
Default to a random generated MAC address in case of any other error,
instead of using the error pointer as MAC address.

Fixes: d01f449c008a ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address")
Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
index 0f0f4b31eb7ec..9b5218a8c15bc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
@@ -385,6 +385,13 @@ stmmac_probe_config_dt(struct platform_device *pdev, const char **mac)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	*mac = of_get_mac_address(np);
+	if (IS_ERR(*mac)) {
+		if (PTR_ERR(*mac) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+			return ERR_CAST(*mac);
+
+		*mac = NULL;
+	}
+
 	plat->interface = of_get_phy_mode(np);
 
 	/* Get max speed of operation from device tree */
-- 
2.20.1