[PATCH] net: phy: fix waiting for link

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Mar 15 09:24:50 GMT 2021


On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:23:56AM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12.03.21 11:13, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > phydev->adjust_link() is called only from phy_update_status() when the
> > link status changes during that function. phydev->link is also updated
> > in genphy_update_link() called from phy_wait_aneg_done(), so it can
> > happen that phydev->link changes outside of phy_update_status(), thus
> > phydev->adjust_link is never called and no link change notice is
> > printed.
> > 
> > Instead of calling genphy_update_link() from phy_wait_aneg_done(), call
> > phy_update_status(). This makes sure that a link change is properly
> > noticed.
> > 
> 
> Fixes: 8f75aa496dcb ("net: reply to ping requests")
> 
> Isn't it?

8f75aa496dcb Isn't exactly broken, it just triggers a problem on this
particular board. It might be confusing to add a fixes tag here.

Sascha

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
> > index 622acbe40d..e8e8dad5bd 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
> > @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ int phy_wait_aneg_done(struct phy_device *phydev)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	do {
> > -		genphy_update_link(phydev);
> > +		phy_update_status(phydev);
> >  		if (phydev->link == 1)
> >  			return 0;
> >  	} while (!is_timeout(start, PHY_AN_TIMEOUT * SECOND));
> > 
> 
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