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

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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: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Kok, Auke 2008-04-29 11:18:55 -07:00 • committed by Jeff Garzik
parent e410553fd3
commit f227ec3ca2
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drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c
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@ -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;
}
}
}