On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 11:23:22AM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote:
> If the PHY does not support EEE mode, then a crash is observed when the
> ethernet interface is enabled. The crash occurs, because if the PHY does
> not support EEE, then although the EEE timer is never configured, it is
> still marked as enabled and so the stmmac ethernet driver is still
> trying to update the timer by calling mod_timer(). This triggers a BUG()
> in the mod_timer() because we are trying to update a timer when there is
> no callback function set because timer_setup() was never called for this
> timer.
>
> The problem is caused because we return true from the function
> stmmac_eee_init(), marking the EEE timer as enabled, even when we have
> not configured the EEE timer. Fix this by ensuring that we return false
> if the PHY does not support EEE and hence, 'eee_active' is not set.
>
> Fixes: 74371272f97f ("net: stmmac: Convert to phylink and remove phylib logic")
> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Thanks for hunting this down!
Tested-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
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