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    mdio_bus: Fix MDIO bus scanning in __mdiobus_register() · 70e927b9
    Marek Vasut authored
    Since commit b74766a0 ("phylib: don't return NULL
    from get_phy_device()") in linux-next, phy_get_device() will return
    ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) instead of NULL if the PHY device ID is all ones.
    
    This causes problem with stmmac driver and likely some other drivers
    which call mdiobus_register(). I triggered this bug on SoCFPGA MCVEVK
    board with linux-next 20160427 and 20160428. In case of the stmmac, if
    there is no PHY node specified in the DT for the stmmac block, the stmmac
    driver ( drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c function
    stmmac_mdio_register() ) will call mdiobus_register() , which will
    register the MDIO bus and probe for the PHY.
    
    The mdiobus_register() resp. __mdiobus_register() iterates over all of
    the addresses on the MDIO bus and calls mdiobus_scan() for each of them,
    which invokes get_phy_device(). Before the aforementioned patch, the
    mdiobus_scan() would return NULL if no PHY was found on a given address
    and mdiobus_register() would continue and try the next PHY address. Now,
    mdiobus_scan() returns ERR_PTR(-ENODEV), which is caught by the
    'if (IS_ERR(phydev))' condition and the loop exits immediately if the
    PHY address does not contain PHY.
    
    Repair this by explicitly checking for the ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) and if this
    error comes around, continue with the next PHY address.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@opensource.altera.com>
    Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
    Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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