3.19.8-ckt4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 4ab7f9138147efbb3efab32a51a8da646769d740 upstream.
MoCA interfaces require the use of an user-space daemon (mocad) which
will typically use cmd->autoneg to force the link. This is causing other
network manager applications not to get proper carrier down
notifications because of the following sequence of events:
- link down interrupt is received, link is set to 0 by the interrupt
handler
- fixed_link update callback runs and updates the BMSR register
accordingly
- PHY library polls the PHY for link status, sees the link is down,
proceeds with reporting that
- mocad gets notified of the link state and call phy_ethtool_sset()
with cmd->autoneg set to the link status (0)
- phy_start_aneg() is called at the end of phy_ethtool_sset() and sets
the PHY state to PHY_FORCING
Just make sure we notify the interface carrier appropriately when we
detect that the link is down in our fixed_link update callback. This is
made local to the bcm_sf2 driver as the PHY library does the right thing
in any case. This is similar to the GENET change introduced in
54d7c01d3ed699cfc213115eaecfe1175cfaff8f ("net: bcmgenet: enable MoCA
link state change detection").
Fixes: 246d7f773c13 ("net: dsa: add Broadcom SF2 switch driver")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c b/drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c
index feb29c4..784b5aa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c
@@ -706,6 +706,13 @@ static void bcm_sf2_sw_fixed_link_update(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port,
*/
if (port == 7) {
status->link = priv->port_sts[port].link;
+ /* For MoCA interfaces, also force a link down notification
+ * since some version of the user-space daemon (mocad) use
+ * cmd->autoneg to force the link, which messes up the PHY
+ * state machine and make it go in PHY_FORCING state instead.
+ */
+ if (!status->link)
+ netif_carrier_off(ds->ports[port]);
status->duplex = 1;
} else {
status->link = 1;
--
1.9.1
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