Gustavo,
The return value of ret_val seems used to check if the access to PHY/NVM
got its semaphore, generally speaking, it is needed for every PHY
access of this driver.
Reviewed-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.z...@oracle.com>
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 5:22 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva
<garsi...@embeddedor.com> wrote:
> Check return value from call to e1e_wphy(). This value is being
> checked during previous calls to function e1e_wphy() and it seems
> a check was missing here.
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1226905
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsi...@embeddedor.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c
> index 68ea8b4..d6d4ed7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c
> @@ -2437,6 +2437,8 @@ static s32 e1000_hv_phy_workarounds_ich8lan(struct
> e1000_hw *hw)
> if (hw->phy.revision < 2) {
> e1000e_phy_sw_reset(hw);
> ret_val = e1e_wphy(hw, MII_BMCR, 0x3140);
> + if (ret_val)
> + return ret_val;
> }
> }
>
> --
> 2.5.0
>
