phy state machine: failsafe leave invalid RUNNING state
authorZefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Fri, 6 Jan 2017 11:14:48 +0000 (12:14 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:49:35 +0000 (08:49 -0700)
commit0bbbbaef6aa0df22c4bafd6db231b173697483ee
tree4adf3be2b3ca8af3ca33255618068682e4c2bf6d
parent9acfb313849e44e956a393b91a63386f7ef1df97
phy state machine: failsafe leave invalid RUNNING state

[ Upstream commit 811a919135b980bac8009d042acdccf10dc1ef5e ]

While in RUNNING state, phy_state_machine() checks for link changes by
comparing phydev->link before and after calling phy_read_status().
This works as long as it is guaranteed that phydev->link is never
changed outside the phy_state_machine().

If in some setups this happens, it causes the state machine to miss
a link loss and remain RUNNING despite phydev->link being 0.

This has been observed running a dsa setup with a process continuously
polling the link states over ethtool each second (SNMPD RFC-1213
agent). Disconnecting the link on a phy followed by a ETHTOOL_GSET
causes dsa_slave_get_settings() / dsa_slave_get_link_ksettings() to
call phy_read_status() and with that modify the link status - and
with that bricking the phy state machine.

This patch adds a fail-safe check while in RUNNING, which causes to
move to CHANGELINK when the link is gone and we are still RUNNING.

Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/phy/phy.c