[PATCH net] mdio: mux: fix parsing mux registers outside of the PHY address range

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Jul 14 08:13:18 PDT 2017


From: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:35:23 +0200

> mdio_mux_init parses the child nodes of the MDIO mux. When using
> "mdio-mux-mmioreg" the child nodes are describing the register value
> that is written to switch between the MDIO busses.
> 
> The change which makes the error messages more verbose changed the
> parsing of the "reg" property from a simple of_property_read_u32 call
> to of_mdio_parse_addr. On a Khadas VIM (based on the Meson GXL SoC,
> which uses mdio-mux-mmioreg) this prevents registering the MDIO mux
> (because the "reg" values on the MDIO mux child nodes are 0x2009087f
> and 0xe40908ff) and leads to the following errors:
>   mdio-mux-mmioreg c883455c.eth-phy-mux: /soc/periphs at c8834000/eth-phy-mux/mdio at e40908ff PHY address -469169921 is too large
>   mdio-mux-mmioreg c883455c.eth-phy-mux: Error: Failed to find reg for child /soc/periphs at c8834000/eth-phy-mux/mdio at e40908ff
>   mdio-mux-mmioreg c883455c.eth-phy-mux: /soc/periphs at c8834000/eth-phy-mux/mdio at 2009087f PHY address 537462911 is too large
>   mdio-mux-mmioreg c883455c.eth-phy-mux: Error: Failed to find reg for child /soc/periphs at c8834000/eth-phy-mux/mdio at 2009087f
>   mdio-mux-mmioreg c883455c.eth-phy-mux: Error: No acceptable child buses found
>   mdio-mux-mmioreg c883455c.eth-phy-mux: failed to register mdio-mux bus /soc/periphs at c8834000/eth-phy-mux
> (as a result of that ethernet is not working, because the PHY which is
> connected through the mux' child MDIO bus, which is not being
> registered).
> 
> Fix this by reverting the change from of_mdio_parse_addr to
> of_mdio_parse_addr.
> 
> Fixes: 342fa1964439 ("mdio: mux: make child bus walking more permissive and errors more verbose")
> Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com>

Applied, thanks.



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