Patch "e1000e: Fix return value test" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

Patch "e1000e: Fix return value test" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    e1000e: Fix return value test

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     e1000e-fix-return-value-test.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From d3509f8bc7b0560044c15f0e3ecfde1d9af757a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:36:25 -0700
Subject: e1000e: Fix return value test

From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>

commit d3509f8bc7b0560044c15f0e3ecfde1d9af757a6 upstream.

All the helpers return -E1000_ERR_PHY.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -4862,7 +4862,7 @@ static bool e1000e_has_link(struct e1000
 		break;
 	}
 
-	if ((ret_val == E1000_ERR_PHY) && (hw->phy.type == e1000_phy_igp_3) &&
+	if ((ret_val == -E1000_ERR_PHY) && (hw->phy.type == e1000_phy_igp_3) &&
 	    (er32(CTRL) & E1000_PHY_CTRL_GBE_DISABLE)) {
 		/* See e1000_kmrn_lock_loss_workaround_ich8lan() */
 		e_info("Gigabit has been disabled, downgrading speed\n");


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bpoirier@suse.com are

queue-3.18/e1000e-fix-error-path-in-link-detection.patch
queue-3.18/e1000e-separate-signaling-for-link-check-link-up.patch
queue-3.18/e1000e-fix-return-value-test.patch