[Linux-stm32] [PATCH] net: phy: fix auto-negotiation in case of 'down-shift'

Antonio Borneo antonio.borneo at st.com
Tue Nov 24 14:38:48 UTC 2020


If the auto-negotiation fails to establish a gigabit link, the phy
can try to 'down-shift': it resets the bits in MII_CTRL1000 to
stop advertising 1Gbps and retries the negotiation at 100Mbps.

>From commit 5502b218e001 ("net: phy: use phy_resolve_aneg_linkmode
in genphy_read_status") the content of MII_CTRL1000 is not checked
anymore at the end of the negotiation, preventing the detection of
phy 'down-shift'.
In case of 'down-shift' phydev->advertising gets out-of-sync wrt
MII_CTRL1000 and still includes modes that the phy have already
dropped. The link partner could still advertise higher speeds,
while the link is established at one of the common lower speeds.
The logic 'and' in phy_resolve_aneg_linkmode() between
phydev->advertising and phydev->lp_advertising will report an
incorrect mode.

Issue detected with a local phy rtl8211f connected with a gigabit
capable router through a two-pairs network cable.

After auto-negotiation, read back MII_CTRL1000 and mask-out from
phydev->advertising the modes that have been eventually discarded
due to the 'down-shift'.

Fixes: 5502b218e001 ("net: phy: use phy_resolve_aneg_linkmode in genphy_read_status")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v5.1+
Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo at st.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/478f871a-583d-01f1-9cc5-2eea56d8c2a7@huawei.com
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To: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1 at gmail.com>
To: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
To: netdev at vger.kernel.org
To: Yonglong Liu <liuyonglong at huawei.com>
Cc: linuxarm at huawei.com
Cc: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta at huawei.com>
Cc: linux-stm32 at st-md-mailman.stormreply.com
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo at st.com>

 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 5dab6be6fc38..5d1060aa1b25 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -2331,7 +2331,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(genphy_read_status_fixed);
  */
 int genphy_read_status(struct phy_device *phydev)
 {
-	int err, old_link = phydev->link;
+	int adv, err, old_link = phydev->link;
 
 	/* Update the link, but return if there was an error */
 	err = genphy_update_link(phydev);
@@ -2356,6 +2356,14 @@ int genphy_read_status(struct phy_device *phydev)
 		return err;
 
 	if (phydev->autoneg == AUTONEG_ENABLE && phydev->autoneg_complete) {
+		if (phydev->is_gigabit_capable) {
+			adv = phy_read(phydev, MII_CTRL1000);
+			if (adv < 0)
+				return adv;
+			/* update advertising in case of 'down-shift' */
+			mii_ctrl1000_mod_linkmode_adv_t(phydev->advertising,
+							adv);
+		}
 		phy_resolve_aneg_linkmode(phydev);
 	} else if (phydev->autoneg == AUTONEG_DISABLE) {
 		err = genphy_read_status_fixed(phydev);

base-commit: d549699048b4b5c22dd710455bcdb76966e55aa3
-- 
2.29.2




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