On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 02:52:09PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 08:26:54PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > From: Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]>
> > 
> > After the patch below, the iteration through the available MMDs is
> > completely short-circuited, and devs_in_pkg remains set to the initial
> > value of zero.
> > 
> > Due to devs_in_pkg being zero, the rest of get_phy_c45_ids() is
> > short-circuited too: the following loop never reaches below this point
> > either (it executes "continue" for every device in package, failing to
> > retrieve PHY ID for any of them):
> > 
> >     /* Now probe Device Identifiers for each device present. */
> >     for (i = 1; i < num_ids; i++) {
> >             if (!(devs_in_pkg & (1 << i)))
> >                     continue;
> > 
> > So c45_ids->device_ids remains populated with zeroes. This causes an
> > Aquantia AQR412 PHY (same as any C45 PHY would, in fact) to be probed by
> > the Generic PHY driver.
> > 
> > The issue seems to be a case of submitting partially committed work (and
> > therefore testing something other than was submitted).
> > 
> > The intention of the patch was to delay exiting the loop until one more
> > condition is reached (the devs_in_pkg read from hardware is either 0, OR
> > mostly f's). So fix the patch to reflect that.
> > 
> > Tested with traffic on a LS1028A-QDS, the PHY is now probed correctly
> > using the Aquantia driver. The devs_in_pkg bit field is set to
> > 0xe000009a, and the MMDs that are present have the following IDs:
> > 
> > [    5.600772] libphy: get_phy_c45_ids: device_ids[1]=0x3a1b662
> > [    5.618781] libphy: get_phy_c45_ids: device_ids[3]=0x3a1b662
> > [    5.630797] libphy: get_phy_c45_ids: device_ids[4]=0x3a1b662
> > [    5.654535] libphy: get_phy_c45_ids: device_ids[7]=0x3a1b662
> > [    5.791723] libphy: get_phy_c45_ids: device_ids[29]=0x3a1b662
> > [    5.804050] libphy: get_phy_c45_ids: device_ids[30]=0x3a1b662
> > [    5.816375] libphy: get_phy_c45_ids: device_ids[31]=0x0
> > 
> > [    7.690237] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: PHY [0.5:00] driver [Aquantia 
> > AQR412] (irq=POLL)
> > [    7.704739] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: PHY [0.5:01] driver [Aquantia 
> > AQR412] (irq=POLL)
> > [    7.718918] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: PHY [0.5:02] driver [Aquantia 
> > AQR412] (irq=POLL)
> > [    7.733044] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: PHY [0.5:03] driver [Aquantia 
> > AQR412] (irq=POLL)
> > 
> > Fixes: bba238ed037c ("net: phy: continue searching for C45 MMDs even if 
> > first returned ffff:ffff")
> > Reported-by: Colin King <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: Ioana Ciornei <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]>
> > ---
> 
> This patch is repairing some pretty significant breakage. Could we
> please get some review before there start appearing user reports?
> 
> [ sorry for the breakage ]

I'm surprised it has not been merged, since the fix seems quite
obvious.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>

    Andrew

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