r8169: fix rare issue with broken rx after link-down on RTL8125
authorHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Thu, 12 Oct 2023 06:51:13 +0000 (08:51 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:59:01 +0000 (11:59 +0100)
commit0fbeb803ef02a0ec2ed8c7d57cfa6fe264cdc09a
tree980939c9b87255d12d0b8bca3c698e1ac0c52741
parentedbd6bbe40ac524a8f2273ffacc53edf14f3c686
r8169: fix rare issue with broken rx after link-down on RTL8125

[ Upstream commit 621735f590643e3048ca2060c285b80551660601 ]

In very rare cases (I've seen two reports so far about different
RTL8125 chip versions) it seems the MAC locks up when link goes down
and requires a software reset to get revived.
Realtek doesn't publish hw errata information, therefore the root cause
is unknown. Realtek vendor drivers do a full hw re-initialization on
each link-up event, the slimmed-down variant here was reported to fix
the issue for the reporting user.
It's not fully clear which parts of the NIC are reset as part of the
software reset, therefore I can't rule out side effects.

Fixes: f1bce4ad2f1c ("r8169: add support for RTL8125")
Reported-by: Martin Kjær Jørgensen <me@lagy.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/97ec2232-3257-316c-c3e7-a08192ce16a6@gmail.com/T/
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9edde757-9c3b-4730-be3b-0ef3a374ff71@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c