linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: hns3: Fixes the wrong IS

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Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:30:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     salil.mehta@...wei.com
Cc:     yisen.zhuang@...wei.com, mehta.salil.lnk@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxarm@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: hns3: Fixes the wrong IS_ERR check on
 the returned phydev value

From: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:06:03 +0100

> This patch removes the wrong check being done for the phy device being
> returned by the mdiobus_get_phy() function. This function never returns
> the error pointers.
> 
> Fixes: 256727da7395 ("net: hns3: Add MDIO support to HNS3 Ethernet
> Driver for hip08 SoC")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>

Applied.