This reverts commit 26fd962bde0b15e54234fe762d86bc0349df1de4.

Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were correct or not.

Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a later kernel change.

The change here was incorrect. While it is nice to check if niu_pci_eeprom_read() succeeded or not when using the data, any error that might have happened was not propagated upwards properly, causing the kernel to assume that these reads were successful, which results in invalid data in the buffer that was to contain the successfully read data.

Cc: Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu Cc: Shannon Nelson shannon.lee.nelson@gmail.com Cc: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Fixes: 26fd962bde0b ("niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c index 707ccdd03b19..d70cdea756d1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c @@ -8097,8 +8097,6 @@ static int niu_pci_vpd_scan_props(struct niu *np, u32 start, u32 end) start += 3;

prop_len = niu_pci_eeprom_read(np, start + 4); - if (prop_len < 0) - return prop_len; err = niu_pci_vpd_get_propname(np, start + 5, namebuf, 64); if (err < 0) return err; @@ -8143,12 +8141,8 @@ static int niu_pci_vpd_scan_props(struct niu *np, u32 start, u32 end) netif_printk(np, probe, KERN_DEBUG, np->dev, "VPD_SCAN: Reading in property [%s] len[%d]\n", namebuf, prop_len); - for (i = 0; i < prop_len; i++) { - err = niu_pci_eeprom_read(np, off + i); - if (err >= 0) - *prop_buf = err; - ++prop_buf; - } + for (i = 0; i < prop_len; i++) + *prop_buf++ = niu_pci_eeprom_read(np, off + i); }

start += len;