From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Justin Chen <justin.chen@broadcom.com>,
Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com (open list:BROADCOM ASP
2.0 ETHERNET DRIVER), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: bcmasp: handle EPROBE_DEFER for MAC retrieval
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:37:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260425013734.436147-1-rosenp@gmail.com> (raw)
of_get_ethdev_address can return EPROBE_DEFER when using nvmem. To
handle this, encode the error with ERR_PTR for minimal changes. Adjust
the only place using bcmasp_interface_create.
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp_intf.c | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c
index 972474893a6b..31a9560c4aee 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c
@@ -1333,10 +1333,10 @@ static int bcmasp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
i = 0;
for_each_available_child_of_node_scoped(ports_node, intf_node) {
intf = bcmasp_interface_create(priv, intf_node, i);
- if (!intf) {
+ if (IS_ERR(intf)) {
dev_err(dev, "Cannot create eth interface %d\n", i);
of_node_put(ports_node);
- ret = -EINVAL;
+ ret = PTR_ERR(intf);
goto err_cleanup;
}
list_add_tail(&intf->list, &priv->intfs);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp_intf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp_intf.c
index ec63f50a849e..caf0e408e2f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp_intf.c
@@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ struct bcmasp_intf *bcmasp_interface_create(struct bcmasp_priv *priv,
struct device *dev = &priv->pdev->dev;
struct bcmasp_intf *intf;
struct net_device *ndev;
- int ch, port, ret;
+ int ch, port, ret = -EINVAL;
if (of_property_read_u32(ndev_dn, "reg", &port)) {
dev_warn(dev, "%s: invalid port number\n", ndev_dn->name);
@@ -1314,6 +1314,8 @@ struct bcmasp_intf *bcmasp_interface_create(struct bcmasp_priv *priv,
}
ret = of_get_ethdev_address(ndev_dn, ndev);
+ if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
if (ret) {
netdev_warn(ndev, "using random Ethernet MAC\n");
eth_hw_addr_random(ndev);
@@ -1340,7 +1342,7 @@ struct bcmasp_intf *bcmasp_interface_create(struct bcmasp_priv *priv,
err_free_netdev:
free_netdev(ndev);
err:
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
void bcmasp_interface_destroy(struct bcmasp_intf *intf)
--
2.54.0
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