[PATCH] net: phy: phy: check return value of bus write

From: Aditya Pakki
Date: Wed Dec 26 2018 - 13:04:35 EST


phy_mii_ioctl() could fail when writing to the bus via
mdiobus_write(). The fix adds a check and returns an error in case
of failure.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
index 1d73ac3309ce..1fbdaa96b36e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ int phy_mii_ioctl(struct phy_device *phydev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
struct mii_ioctl_data *mii_data = if_mii(ifr);
u16 val = mii_data->val_in;
bool change_autoneg = false;
+ int rc;

switch (cmd) {
case SIOCGMIIPHY:
@@ -443,8 +444,10 @@ int phy_mii_ioctl(struct phy_device *phydev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
}
}

- mdiobus_write(phydev->mdio.bus, mii_data->phy_id,
- mii_data->reg_num, val);
+ rc = mdiobus_write(phydev->mdio.bus, mii_data->phy_id,
+ mii_data->reg_num, val);
+ if (rc)
+ return rc;

if (mii_data->phy_id == phydev->mdio.addr &&
mii_data->reg_num == MII_BMCR &&
--
2.17.1