[PATCH 1/3] phy: zynqmp: fix L0_TM_DISABLE_SCRAMBLE_ENCODER mask
Pandey, Radhey Shyam
radheys at amd.com
Wed May 20 03:37:30 PDT 2026
On 5/13/2026 3:05 AM, sashiko-bot at kernel.org wrote:
> Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
> - [High] Unhandled Error Path in `xpsgtr_phy_init()` masks clock initialization failures.
> --
As AI review mentions - This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but
there is a pre-existing issue in xpsgtr_phy_init().
For this pre-existing issue is it ok to send a separate series and will
include others error handling gaps. So far i have identified two issues.
phy: zynqmp: balance pm_runtime on probe allocation failure
phy: zynqmp: fix xpsgtr_phy_init() clock error handling
Thanks,
Radhey
>
> commit f38f7c8479703290a0f18153b9a9207f41500566
> Author: Nava kishore Manne <nava.kishore.manne at amd.com>
>
> phy: zynqmp: fix L0_TM_DISABLE_SCRAMBLE_ENCODER mask
>
> The L0_TX_DIG_61 register bit 2 is a reserved read-only field.
> The previous mask value 0x0f incorrectly included bit 2, causing
> unintended writes to a reserved bit on every scrambler bypass
> operation.
>
> Correct the mask to (BIT(3) | GENMASK(1, 0)) to cover only the
> valid scramble bypass control bits.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/phy/xilinx/phy-zynqmp.c b/drivers/phy/xilinx/phy-zynqmp.c
>> index fe6b4925d1662..c037d7c13d485 100644
>> --- a/drivers/phy/xilinx/phy-zynqmp.c
>> +++ b/drivers/phy/xilinx/phy-zynqmp.c
>> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
>> #define L0_TM_DIG_6 0x106c
>> #define L0_TM_DIS_DESCRAMBLE_DECODER 0x0f
>> #define L0_TX_DIG_61 0x00f4
>> -#define L0_TM_DISABLE_SCRAMBLE_ENCODER 0x0f
>> +#define L0_TM_DISABLE_SCRAMBLE_ENCODER (BIT(3) | GENMASK(1, 0))
>>
>> /* PLL Test Mode register parameters */
>> #define L0_TM_PLL_DIG_37 0x2094
>
> This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but there is a pre-existing
> issue in xpsgtr_phy_init().
>
> If clk_prepare_enable() fails, the error path appears to mask the failure:
>
> drivers/phy/xilinx/phy-zynqmp.c:xpsgtr_phy_init() {
> int ret = 0;
>
> mutex_lock(>r_dev->gtr_mutex);
>
> /* Configure and enable the clock when peripheral phy_init call */
> if (clk_prepare_enable(gtr_dev->clk[gtr_phy->refclk]))
> goto out;
> ...
> out:
> mutex_unlock(>r_dev->gtr_mutex);
> return ret;
> }
>
> Since ret is initialized to 0, will this return 0 instead of the actual error
> code from clk_prepare_enable()?
>
> If the function falsely reports success, the PHY framework will consider the
> device initialized.
>
> During teardown, could xpsgtr_phy_exit() unconditionally call
> clk_disable_unprepare() on a clock that was never enabled, causing a clock
> reference count underflow and a kernel WARN_ON?
>
> Furthermore, would allowing the upper layer to access PHY registers without a
> running clock risk hanging the AXI bus on ZynqMP, potentially leading to an
> asynchronous external abort (system panic)?
>
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