linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: dwmac-sun8i: fix a missing check of of_get_phy

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Date:   Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:50:40 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: dwmac-sun8i: fix a missing check of of_get_phy_mode

of_get_phy_mode may fail and return a negative error code;
the fix checks the return value of of_get_phy_mode and
returns -EINVAL of it fails.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c
index 0f660af01a4b..195669f550f0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c
@@ -1147,7 +1147,10 @@ static int sun8i_dwmac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	plat_dat->interface = of_get_phy_mode(dev->of_node);
+	ret = of_get_phy_mode(dev->of_node);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	plat_dat->interface = ret;
 
 	/* platform data specifying hardware features and callbacks.
 	 * hardware features were copied from Allwinner drivers.
-- 
2.17.1