Patch "stmmac: fix check for phydev being open" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

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

stmmac: fix check for phydev being open

to the 4.1-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:
stmmac-fix-check-for-phydev-being-open.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

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

From: Alexey Brodkin <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 18:01:08 +0300
Subject: stmmac: fix check for phydev being open

From: Alexey Brodkin <[email protected]>

commit dfc50fcaad574e5c8c85cbc83eca1426b2413fa4 upstream.

Current check of phydev with IS_ERR(phydev) may make not much sense because of_phy_connect() returns NULL on failure instead of error value.

Still for checking result of phy_connect() IS_ERR() makes perfect sense.

So let's use combined check IS_ERR_OR_NULL() that covers both cases.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -829,8 +829,11 @@ static int stmmac_init_phy(struct net_de
 
 	phydev = phy_connect(dev, phy_id_fmt, &stmmac_adjust_link, interface);
 
-	if (IS_ERR(phydev)) {
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(phydev)) {
 		pr_err("%s: Could not attach to PHY\n", dev->name);
+		if (!phydev)
+			return -ENODEV;
+
 		return PTR_ERR(phydev);
 	}
 

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

queue-4.1/stmmac-troubleshoot-unexpected-bits-in-des0-des1.patch queue-4.1/stmmac-fix-check-for-phydev-being-open.patch