Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] of_get_mac_address ERR_PTR fixes

Hi Petr,

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 11:25 PM Petr Štetiar [off-list ref] wrote:

this patch series is an attempt to fix the mess, I've somehow managed to
introduce.

First patch in this series is defacto v5 of the previous 05/10 patch in the
series, but since the v4 of this 05/10 patch wasn't picked up by the
patchwork for some unknown reason, this patch wasn't applied with the other
9 patches in the series, so I'm resending it as a separate patch of this
fixup series again.

Second patch is a result of this rebase against net-next tree, where I was
checking again all current users of of_get_mac_address and found out, that
there's new one in DSA, so I've converted this user to the new ERR_PTR
encoded error value as well.

Third patch which was sent as v5 wasn't considered for merge, but I still
think, that we need to check for possible NULL value, thus current IS_ERR
check isn't sufficient and we need to use IS_ERR_OR_NULL instead.

Fourth patch fixes warning reported by kbuild test robot.

Cheers,

Petr

Petr Štetiar (4):
  net: ethernet: support of_get_mac_address new ERR_PTR error

I didn't receive the patch through email, but patchwork does have it:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1096054/

This fixes the crash ("Unable to handle kernel paging request atvirtual
address fffffffe") I'm seeing with sh_eth on r8a7791/koelsch, so

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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