netdev - [PATCH net] octeontx2-pf: Fix an IS

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Date:   Fri, 31 Jan 2020 08:02:41 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>
Cc:     Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>,
        Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>,
        hariprasad <hkelam@...vell.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Tomasz Duszynski <tduszynski@...vell.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] octeontx2-pf: Fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL bug

The otx2_mbox_get_rsp() function never returns NULL, it returns error
pointers on error.

Fixes: 34bfe0ebedb7 ("octeontx2-pf: MTU, MAC and RX mode config support")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c
index 8247d21d0432..b945bd3d5d88 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c
@@ -171,9 +171,9 @@ static int otx2_hw_get_mac_addr(struct otx2_nic *pfvf,
 	}
 
 	msghdr = otx2_mbox_get_rsp(&pfvf->mbox.mbox, 0, &req->hdr);
-	if (!msghdr) {
+	if (IS_ERR(msghdr)) {
 		otx2_mbox_unlock(&pfvf->mbox);
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return PTR_ERR(msghdr);
 	}
 	rsp = (struct nix_get_mac_addr_rsp *)msghdr;
 	ether_addr_copy(netdev->dev_addr, rsp->mac_addr);
-- 
2.11.0