Re: [PATCH] stmmac: fix check for phydev being open

[Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>]

Hello.

On 09/07/2015 09:15 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:

> Current implementation via IS_ERR(phydev) may make no sense because
> of_phy_attach() returns NULL on failure instead of error value.

> Still for checking result of phy_connect() IS_ERR() is useful.

> So adding explicit check for NULL.

> Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
> Cc: arc-linux-dev@synopsys.com
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> index 864b476..ad2ce3e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ static int stmmac_init_phy(struct net_device *dev)
>   				     interface);
>   	}
>
> -	if (IS_ERR(phydev)) {
> +	if (!phydev || IS_ERR(phydev)) {

    There's IS_ERR_OR_NULL().

WBR, Sergei