net_init does not always succeed, and there is no existing mechanism to
discover errors. This patch allows callers of net_init (such as net_init)
to handle errors. The root issue is that eth_get_dev can fail, but
net_init_loop doesn't expose that. The ideal way to fix eth_get_dev would
be to return an error with ERR_PTR, but there are a lot of callers, and all
of them just check if it's NULL. Another approach would be to change the
signature to something like

int eth_get_dev(struct udevice **pdev)

but that would require rewriting all of the many callers.

Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <[email protected]>
---

 include/net.h    |  2 +-
 net/eth-uclass.c |  3 +++
 net/net.c        | 15 +++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net.h b/include/net.h
index 1bf9867f8c..b80b13ae7c 100644
--- a/include/net.h
+++ b/include/net.h
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ extern int net_ntp_time_offset;                     /* 
offset time from UTC */
 #endif
 
 /* Initialize the network adapter */
-void net_init(void);
+int net_init(void);
 int net_loop(enum proto_t);
 
 /* Load failed.         Start again. */
diff --git a/net/eth-uclass.c b/net/eth-uclass.c
index 0d9b75a9a2..1f59d24f54 100644
--- a/net/eth-uclass.c
+++ b/net/eth-uclass.c
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ struct udevice *eth_get_dev(void)
        struct eth_uclass_priv *uc_priv;
 
        uc_priv = eth_get_uclass_priv();
+       if (!uc_priv)
+               return NULL;
+
        if (!uc_priv->current)
                eth_errno = uclass_first_device(UCLASS_ETH,
                                    &uc_priv->current);
diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c
index 28d9eebf9d..3afd0d6fb0 100644
--- a/net/net.c
+++ b/net/net.c
@@ -353,12 +353,19 @@ void net_auto_load(void)
        tftp_start(TFTPGET);
 }
 
-static void net_init_loop(void)
+static int net_init_loop(void)
 {
        if (eth_get_dev())
                memcpy(net_ethaddr, eth_get_ethaddr(), 6);
+       else
+               /*
+                * Not ideal, but there's no way to get the actual error, and I
+                * don't feel like fixing all the users of eth_get_dev to deal
+                * with errors.
+                */
+               return -ENONET;
 
-       return;
+       return 0;
 }
 
 static void net_clear_handlers(void)
@@ -373,7 +380,7 @@ static void net_cleanup_loop(void)
        net_clear_handlers();
 }
 
-void net_init(void)
+int net_init(void)
 {
        static int first_call = 1;
 
@@ -396,7 +403,7 @@ void net_init(void)
                first_call = 0;
        }
 
-       net_init_loop();
+       return net_init_loop();
 }
 
 /**********************************************************************/
-- 
2.28.0

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