netdev - [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] net: pcs: xpcs: Return EINVAL in the internal methods

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:58:22 +0300
From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
To: Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
	Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
	Mengyuan Lou <mengyuanlou@...-swift.com>,
	Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@...il.com>,
	Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@...stnetic.com>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] net: pcs: xpcs: Return EINVAL in the internal methods

In particular the xpcs_soft_reset() and xpcs_do_config() functions
currently return -1 if invalid auto-negotiation mode is specified. That
value might be then passed to the generic kernel subsystems which require
a standard kernel errno value. Even though the erroneous conditions are
very specific (memory corruption or buggy driver implementation) using a
hard-coded -1 literal doesn't seem correct anyway especially when it comes
to passing it higher to the network subsystem or printing to the system
log.  Convert the hard-coded error values to -EINVAL then.

Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
---
 drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c b/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c
index 7f8c63922a4b..92c47da61db4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int xpcs_soft_reset(struct dw_xpcs *xpcs,
 		dev = MDIO_MMD_VEND2;
 		break;
 	default:
-		return -1;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	ret = xpcs_write(xpcs, dev, MDIO_CTRL1, MDIO_CTRL1_RESET);
@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ int xpcs_do_config(struct dw_xpcs *xpcs, phy_interface_t interface,
 			return ret;
 		break;
 	default:
-		return -1;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	if (compat->pma_config) {
-- 
2.43.0