Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2018 11:07:01 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: phy: phylink: ensure the carrier is off when starting phylink |
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:39:31AM +0200, Antoine Tenart wrote: > Phylink made an assumption about the carrier state being down when > calling phylink_start(). If this assumption isn't satisfied, the > internal phylink state could misbehave and a net device could end up not > being functional. > > This patch fixes this by explicitly calling netif_carrier_off() in > phylink_start(). > > Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Thanks.
> --- > drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c > index 3ba5cf2a8a5f..1d01e0c625a5 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c > @@ -901,6 +901,9 @@ void phylink_start(struct phylink *pl) > phylink_an_mode_str(pl->link_an_mode), > phy_modes(pl->link_config.interface)); > > + /* Always set the carrier off */ > + netif_carrier_off(pl->netdev); > + > /* Apply the link configuration to the MAC when starting. This allows > * a fixed-link to start with the correct parameters, and also > * ensures that we set the appropriate advertisement for Serdes links. > -- > 2.17.1 >
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