Commit f227ec3c authored by Kok, Auke's avatar Kok, Auke Committed by Jeff Garzik

e1000e: don't return half-read eeprom on error

On a read error, e1000e might have returned uninitialized block of
eeprom data back to userspace. The convention is that 0xff is "empty",
so mark the entire eeprom as empty in case of an error.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAuke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
parent e410553f
......@@ -494,8 +494,12 @@ static int e1000_get_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev,
for (i = 0; i < last_word - first_word + 1; i++) {
ret_val = e1000_read_nvm(hw, first_word + i, 1,
&eeprom_buff[i]);
if (ret_val)
if (ret_val) {
/* a read error occurred, throw away the
* result */
memset(eeprom_buff, 0xff, sizeof(eeprom_buff));
break;
}
}
}
......
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