This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled igb: skip phy status check where unavailable to the 4.9-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: igb-skip-phy-status-check-where-unavailable.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 49c73e51ad903eb64a18d1588d7f4e40f5d7165c Author: Kevin Mitchell <kevmitch@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 17 11:01:05 2022 -0700 igb: skip phy status check where unavailable [ Upstream commit 942d2ad5d2e0df758a645ddfadffde2795322728 ] igb_read_phy_reg() will silently return, leaving phy_data untouched, if hw->ops.read_reg isn't set. Depending on the uninitialized value of phy_data, this led to the phy status check either succeeding immediately or looping continuously for 2 seconds before emitting a noisy err-level timeout. This message went out to the console even though there was no actual problem. Instead, first check if there is read_reg function pointer. If not, proceed without trying to check the phy status register. Fixes: b72f3f72005d ("igb: When GbE link up, wait for Remote receiver status condition") Signed-off-by: Kevin Mitchell <kevmitch@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Gurucharan <gurucharanx.g@xxxxxxxxx> (A Contingent worker at Intel) Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c index 6bede6774486..d825e527ec1a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c @@ -4546,7 +4546,8 @@ static void igb_watchdog_task(struct work_struct *work) break; } - if (adapter->link_speed != SPEED_1000) + if (adapter->link_speed != SPEED_1000 || + !hw->phy.ops.read_reg) goto no_wait; /* wait for Remote receiver status OK */