This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: dsa: Fix network device registration order
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:
net-dsa-fix-network-device-registration-order.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.
>From foo@baz Tue Oct 10 16:09:22 CEST 2017
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:55:53 -0700
Subject: net: dsa: Fix network device registration order
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit e804441cfe0b60f6c430901946a69c01eac09df1 ]
We cannot be registering the network device first, then setting its
carrier off and finally connecting it to a PHY, doing that leaves a
window during which the carrier is at best inconsistent, and at worse
the device is not usable without a down/up sequence since the network
device is visible to user space with possibly no PHY device attached.
Re-order steps so that they make logical sense. This fixes some devices
where the port was not usable after e.g: an unbind then bind of the
driver.
Fixes: 0071f56e46da ("dsa: Register netdev before phy")
Fixes: 91da11f870f0 ("net: Distributed Switch Architecture protocol support")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/dsa/slave.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--- a/net/dsa/slave.c
+++ b/net/dsa/slave.c
@@ -1269,26 +1269,32 @@ int dsa_slave_create(struct dsa_switch *
p->old_duplex = -1;
ds->ports[port].netdev = slave_dev;
- ret = register_netdev(slave_dev);
- if (ret) {
- netdev_err(master, "error %d registering interface %s\n",
- ret, slave_dev->name);
- ds->ports[port].netdev = NULL;
- free_netdev(slave_dev);
- return ret;
- }
netif_carrier_off(slave_dev);
ret = dsa_slave_phy_setup(p, slave_dev);
if (ret) {
netdev_err(master, "error %d setting up slave phy\n", ret);
- unregister_netdev(slave_dev);
- free_netdev(slave_dev);
- return ret;
+ goto out_free;
+ }
+
+ ret = register_netdev(slave_dev);
+ if (ret) {
+ netdev_err(master, "error %d registering interface %s\n",
+ ret, slave_dev->name);
+ goto out_phy;
}
return 0;
+
+out_phy:
+ phy_disconnect(p->phy);
+ if (of_phy_is_fixed_link(ds->ports[port].dn))
+ of_phy_deregister_fixed_link(ds->ports[port].dn);
+out_free:
+ free_netdev(slave_dev);
+ ds->ports[port].netdev = NULL;
+ return ret;
}
void dsa_slave_destroy(struct net_device *slave_dev)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/net-dsa-fix-network-device-registration-order.patch