On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 02:44:00PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch reverts commit 3243ff2a05ec ("net: ethernet: davinci_emac:
> Deduplicate bus_find_device() by name matching") and adds a comment
> which should stop anyone from reintroducing the same "fix" in the future.
>
> We can't use bus_find_device_by_name() here because the device name is
> not guaranteed to be 'davinci_mdio'. On some systems it can be
> 'davinci_mdio.0' so we need to use strncmp() against the first part of
> the string to correctly match it.
>
> Fixes: 3243ff2a05ec ("net: ethernet: davinci_emac: Deduplicate bus_find_device() by name matching")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>
My apologies Bartosz, it wasn't clear to me that the driver deliberately
only matched against the prefix of the name. Sorry for the breakage.
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c
> index 06d7c9e4dcda..a1a6445b5a7e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c
> @@ -1385,6 +1385,11 @@ static int emac_devioctl(struct net_device *ndev, struct ifreq *ifrq, int cmd)
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> }
>
> +static int match_first_device(struct device *dev, void *data)
> +{
> + return !strncmp(dev_name(dev), "davinci_mdio", 12);
> +}
> +
> /**
> * emac_dev_open - EMAC device open
> * @ndev: The DaVinci EMAC network adapter
> @@ -1484,8 +1489,14 @@ static int emac_dev_open(struct net_device *ndev)
>
> /* use the first phy on the bus if pdata did not give us a phy id */
> if (!phydev && !priv->phy_id) {
> - phy = bus_find_device_by_name(&mdio_bus_type, NULL,
> - "davinci_mdio");
> + /* NOTE: we can't use bus_find_device_by_name() here because
> + * the device name is not guaranteed to be 'davinci_mdio'. On
> + * some systems it can be 'davinci_mdio.0' so we need to use
> + * strncmp() against the first part of the string to correctly
> + * match it.
> + */
> + phy = bus_find_device(&mdio_bus_type, NULL, NULL,
> + match_first_device);
> if (phy) {
> priv->phy_id = dev_name(phy);
> if (!priv->phy_id || !*priv->phy_id)
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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