linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: phy: mscc: Add error check when __phy

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Date:   Tue, 10 May 2022 17:08:07 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@...o.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: phy: mscc: Add error check when __phy_read()
 failed

> Does this fix an actual issue or was this found by code inspection? If
> that is not fixing a real issue I don't think it should go to stable
> trees.

You are probably right about stable vs net-next. With the old code, a
bad read will result in random return values and bad things are likely
to happen. With this change, 0 will be returned, and hopefully less
bad things will happen.

But i doubt this impacts real users. MDIO tends to either work or not
work at all. And not working is pretty noticeable, and nobody has
reported issues.

So, lets drop the fixes tag, and submit to net-next.

	 Andrew