net: miiphybb: fix casting error

Since the return value is a signed int, if the leading MSB of rdreg is a 1,
it will get signed extended and will return a negative value which is an
error even though we read the correct value.

Fixes: dfcc496ed7e2 ("net: mii: Changes not made by spatch")
Signed-off-by: Chris Brandt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/miiphybb.c b/drivers/net/phy/miiphybb.c
index af676b9baeec956f3c85d61bf1141a860cc7c274..d61722490ead4e9ebbde70c291683364adad8e38 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/phy/miiphybb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/miiphybb.c
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static void miiphy_pre(struct bb_miiphy_bus *bus, char read,
  */
 int bb_miiphy_read(struct mii_dev *miidev, int addr, int devad, int reg)
 {
-       short rdreg; /* register working value */
+       unsigned short rdreg; /* register working value */
        int v;
        int j; /* counter */
        struct bb_miiphy_bus *bus;