[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: fix a missing check for return value

[Jeff Kirsher]

On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 15:54 -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> The change is based on the issue found by Kangjie Lu <kjlu at umn.edu>
> where
> we not checking the return value of a register read/write which could
> result
> in a NULL pointer dereference if the read/write fails.
> 
> Since we are only trying to disable the far-end loopback, if the read
> and write of register fails, we do not want to bail out of the
> function.
> We just want to log that it failed to disable and continue on.
> 
> CC: Sasha Neftin <sasha.neftin at intel.com>
> CC: Kangjie Lu <kjlu at umn.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
> ---
>  .../net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/80003es2lan.c   | 31 +++++++++++++--
> ----
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

v2 coming, I fat fingered a typo
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