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From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
To: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Alvaro Gamez Machado <alvaro.gamez@hazent.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: dp83848: check phy_read() return value in config_init()
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 10:10:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b609cf54-2e37-4c43-80c9-ae3d013cc4a8@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260902065828.1031113-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>

Hi,

On 9/2/26 08:58, Donggeun Yoo wrote:
> dp83848_config_init() reads BMCR to detect whether auto-negotiation is
> enabled, but does not check the phy_read() return value. On an MDIO read
> failure phy_read() returns a negative errno, which is then used directly
> in a bitwise test; the auto-negotiation state is left undefined while
> config_init() still reports success.
> 
> Check the return value and propagate the error.
> 
> Fixes: b718e8c8f4f5 ("net: phy: dp83822: use BMCR_ANENABLE instead of BMSR_ANEGCAPABLE for DP83620")
> Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>

Maxime

> ---
> Only compile-tested; I do not have DP83848-family hardware.
> 
>  drivers/net/phy/dp83848.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/dp83848.c b/drivers/net/phy/dp83848.c
> index d88b1999d596..e65651ac567a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/dp83848.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/dp83848.c
> @@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ static int dp83848_config_init(struct phy_device *phydev)
>  	 * we check initial value of BMCR Auto negotiation enable bit
>  	 */
>  	val = phy_read(phydev, MII_BMCR);
> +	if (val < 0)
> +		return val;
> +
>  	if (!(val & BMCR_ANENABLE))
>  		phydev->autoneg = AUTONEG_DISABLE;
>  
> 
> base-commit: 70f3995830d3f1e79faa14eb0605914f778feca9


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-02  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-02  6:58 Donggeun Yoo
2026-09-02  8:10 ` Maxime Chevallier [this message]
2026-09-02  8:18 ` Xuanqiang Luo
2026-09-04  0:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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