This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: bgmac-bcma: handle deferred probe error due to mac-address
to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-bgmac-bcma-handle-deferred-probe-error-due-to-ma.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 234407902c72d0dbd894047ec73459057f0f2933
Author: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Sep 19 13:57:25 2021 +0200
net: bgmac-bcma: handle deferred probe error due to mac-address
[ Upstream commit 029497e66bdc762e001880e4c85a91f35a54b1e2 ]
Due to the inclusion of nvmem handling into the mac-address getter
function of_get_mac_address() by
commit d01f449c008a ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address")
it is now possible to get a -EPROBE_DEFER return code. Which did cause
bgmac to assign a random ethernet address.
This exact issue happened on my Meraki MR32. The nvmem provider is
an EEPROM (at24c64) which gets instantiated once the module
driver is loaded... This happens once the filesystem becomes available.
With this patch, bgmac_probe() will propagate the -EPROBE_DEFER error.
Then the driver subsystem will reschedule the probe at a later time.
Cc: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
Fixes: d01f449c008a ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address")
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c
index 85fa0ab7201c..9513cfb5ba58 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ static int bgmac_probe(struct bcma_device *core)
bcma_set_drvdata(core, bgmac);
err = of_get_mac_address(bgmac->dev->of_node, bgmac->net_dev->dev_addr);
+ if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ return err;
/* If no MAC address assigned via device tree, check SPROM */
if (err) {
