Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2020-03-03
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[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 31/58] net: ethernet: dm9000: Handle -EPROBE_DEFER in dm9000_parse_dt()

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-03-03 02:57:01
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>

[ Upstream commit 9a6a0dea16177ccaecc116f560232e63bec115f1 ]

The call to of_get_mac_address() can return -EPROBE_DEFER, for instance
when the MAC address is read from a NVMEM driver that did not probe yet.

Cc: H. Nikolaus Schaller <redacted>
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
index cce90b5925d93..70060c51854fd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
@@ -1405,6 +1405,8 @@ static struct dm9000_plat_data *dm9000_parse_dt(struct device *dev)
 	mac_addr = of_get_mac_address(np);
 	if (!IS_ERR(mac_addr))
 		ether_addr_copy(pdata->dev_addr, mac_addr);
+	else if (PTR_ERR(mac_addr) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+		return ERR_CAST(mac_addr);
 
 	return pdata;
 }
-- 
2.20.1
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