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Patch "net: phy: at803x: Change error to EINVAL for invalid MAC" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net: phy: at803x: Change error to EINVAL for invalid MAC

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
net-phy-at803x-change-error-to-einval-for-invalid-mac.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From foo@baz Thu Dec 21 10:35:49 CET 2017

From: Dan Murphy <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:42:56 -0500
Subject: net: phy: at803x: Change error to EINVAL for invalid MAC

From: Dan Murphy <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit fc7556877d1748ac00958822a0a3bba1d4bd9e0d ]

Change the return error code to EINVAL if the MAC
address is not valid in the set_wol function.

---
 drivers/net/phy/at803x.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/net/phy/at803x.c +1 -1
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int at803x_set_wol(struct phy_dev
 		mac = (const u8 *) ndev->dev_addr;
 
 		if (!is_valid_ether_addr(mac))
-			return -EFAULT;
+			return -EINVAL;
 
 		for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
 			phy_write(phydev, AT803X_MMD_ACCESS_CONTROL,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/net-phy-at803x-change-error-to-einval-for-invalid-mac.patch