phylink_ethtool_ksettings_get can be called while the interface may not even be up, which should not be a problem. But there are drivers (e.g. gianfar) which connect to the PHY in .ndo_open and disconnect in .ndo_close. While odd, to my knowledge this is again not illegal and there may be more that do the same. But PHYLINK for example has this check in phylink_ethtool_ksettings_get:
if (pl->phydev) { phy_ethtool_ksettings_get(pl->phydev, kset); } else { kset->base.port = pl->link_port; } So it will not populate kset->base.speed if there is no PHY connected. The speed will be 0, by way of a previous memset. Not SPEED_UNKNOWN. It is arguable whether that is legal or not. include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h says: All values 0 to INT_MAX are legal. By that measure it may be. But it sure would make users of the __ethtool_get_link_ksettings API need make more complicated checks (against -1, against 0, 1, etc). So far the kernel community has been ok with just checking for SPEED_UNKNOWN. Take net/sched/sch_taprio.c for example. The check in taprio_set_picos_per_byte is currently not robust enough and will trigger this division by zero, due to PHYLINK not setting SPEED_UNKNOWN: if (!__ethtool_get_link_ksettings(dev, &ecmd) && ecmd.base.speed != SPEED_UNKNOWN) picos_per_byte = div64_s64(NSEC_PER_SEC * 1000LL * 8, ecmd.base.speed * 1000 * 1000); [ 27.109992] Division by zero in kernel. [ 27.113842] CPU: 1 PID: 198 Comm: tc Not tainted 5.3.0-rc5-01246-gc4006b8c2637-dirty #212 [ 27.121974] Hardware name: Freescale LS1021A [ 27.126234] [<c03132e0>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c030d8b8>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) [ 27.133938] [<c030d8b8>] (show_stack) from [<c10b21b0>] (dump_stack+0xb0/0xc4) [ 27.141124] [<c10b21b0>] (dump_stack) from [<c10af97c>] (Ldiv0_64+0x8/0x18) [ 27.148052] [<c10af97c>] (Ldiv0_64) from [<c0700260>] (div64_u64+0xcc/0xf0) [ 27.154978] [<c0700260>] (div64_u64) from [<c07002d0>] (div64_s64+0x4c/0x68) [ 27.161993] [<c07002d0>] (div64_s64) from [<c0f3d890>] (taprio_set_picos_per_byte+0xe8/0xf4) [ 27.170388] [<c0f3d890>] (taprio_set_picos_per_byte) from [<c0f3f614>] (taprio_change+0x668/0xcec) [ 27.179302] [<c0f3f614>] (taprio_change) from [<c0f2bc24>] (qdisc_create+0x1fc/0x4f4) [ 27.187091] [<c0f2bc24>] (qdisc_create) from [<c0f2c0c8>] (tc_modify_qdisc+0x1ac/0x6f8) [ 27.195055] [<c0f2c0c8>] (tc_modify_qdisc) from [<c0ee9604>] (rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x268/0x2dc) [ 27.203449] [<c0ee9604>] (rtnetlink_rcv_msg) from [<c0f4fef0>] (netlink_rcv_skb+0xe0/0x114) [ 27.211756] [<c0f4fef0>] (netlink_rcv_skb) from [<c0f4f6cc>] (netlink_unicast+0x1b4/0x22c) [ 27.219977] [<c0f4f6cc>] (netlink_unicast) from [<c0f4fa84>] (netlink_sendmsg+0x284/0x340) [ 27.228198] [<c0f4fa84>] (netlink_sendmsg) from [<c0eae5fc>] (sock_sendmsg+0x14/0x24) [ 27.235988] [<c0eae5fc>] (sock_sendmsg) from [<c0eaedf8>] (___sys_sendmsg+0x214/0x228) [ 27.243863] [<c0eaedf8>] (___sys_sendmsg) from [<c0eb015c>] (__sys_sendmsg+0x50/0x8c) [ 27.251652] [<c0eb015c>] (__sys_sendmsg) from [<c0301000>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54) [ 27.259524] Exception stack(0xe8045fa8 to 0xe8045ff0) [ 27.264546] 5fa0: b6f608c8 000000f8 00000003 bed7e2f0 00000000 00000000 [ 27.272681] 5fc0: b6f608c8 000000f8 004ce54c 00000128 5d3ce8c7 00000000 00000026 00505c9c [ 27.280812] 5fe0: 00000070 bed7e298 004ddd64 b6dd1e64 Cc: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk> Fixes: 9525ae83959b ("phylink: add phylink infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olte...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c index a45c5de96ab1..3522eaf3e80c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c @@ -1112,6 +1112,7 @@ int phylink_ethtool_ksettings_get(struct phylink *pl, if (pl->phydev) { phy_ethtool_ksettings_get(pl->phydev, kset); } else { + kset->base.speed = SPEED_UNKNOWN; kset->base.port = pl->link_port; } -- 2.17.1