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    Revert "net: phy: Uniform PHY driver access" · 301de697
    Vladimir Oltean authored
    This reverts commit 3ac8eed6, which did
    more than it said on the box, and not only it replaced to_phy_driver
    with phydev->drv, but it also removed the "!drv" check, without actually
    explaining why that is fine.
    
    That patch in fact breaks suspend/resume on any system which has PHY
    devices with no drivers bound.
    
    The stack trace is:
    
    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000e8
    pc : mdio_bus_phy_suspend+0xd8/0xec
    lr : dpm_run_callback+0x38/0x90
    Call trace:
     mdio_bus_phy_suspend+0xd8/0xec
     dpm_run_callback+0x38/0x90
     __device_suspend+0x108/0x3cc
     dpm_suspend+0x140/0x210
     dpm_suspend_start+0x7c/0xa0
     suspend_devices_and_enter+0x13c/0x540
     pm_suspend+0x2a4/0x330
    
    Examples why that assumption is not fine:
    
    - There is an MDIO bus with a PHY device that doesn't have a specific
      PHY driver loaded, because mdiobus_register() automatically creates a
      PHY device for it but there is no specific PHY driver in the system.
      Normally under those circumstances, the generic PHY driver will be
      bound lazily to it (at phy_attach_direct time). But some Ethernet
      drivers attach to their PHY at .ndo_open time. Until then it, the
      to-be-driven-by-genphy PHY device will not have a driver. The blamed
      patch amounts to saying "you need to open all net devices before the
      system can suspend, to avoid the NULL pointer dereference".
    
    - There is any raw MDIO device which has 'plausible' values in the PHY
      ID registers 2 and 3, which is located on an MDIO bus whose driver
      does not set bus->phy_mask = ~0 (which prevents auto-scanning of PHY
      devices). An example could be a MAC's internal MDIO bus with PCS
      devices on it, for serial links such as SGMII. PHY devices will get
      created for those PCSes too, due to that MDIO bus auto-scanning, and
      although those PHY devices are not used, they do not bother anybody
      either. PCS devices are usually managed in Linux as raw MDIO devices.
      Nonetheless, they do not have a PHY driver, nor does anybody attempt
      to connect to them (because they are not a PHY), and therefore this
      patch breaks that.
    
    The goal itself of the patch is questionable, so I am going for a
    straight revert. to_phy_driver does not seem to have a need to be
    replaced by phydev->drv, in fact that might even trigger code paths
    which were not given too deep of a thought.
    
    For instance:
    
    phy_probe populates phydev->drv at the beginning, but does not clean it
    up on any error (including EPROBE_DEFER). So if the phydev driver
    requests probe deferral, phydev->drv will remain populated despite there
    being no driver bound.
    
    If a system suspend starts in between the initial probe deferral request
    and the subsequent probe retry, we will be calling the phydev->drv->suspend
    method, but _before_ any phydev->drv->probe call has succeeded.
    
    That is to say, if the phydev->drv is allocating any driver-private data
    structure in ->probe, it pretty much expects that data structure to be
    available in ->suspend. But it may not. That is a pretty insane
    environment to present to PHY drivers.
    
    In the code structure before the blamed patch, mdio_bus_phy_may_suspend
    would just say "no, don't suspend" to any PHY device which does not have
    a driver pointer _in_the_device_structure_ (not the phydev->drv). That
    would essentially ensure that ->suspend will never get called for a
    device that has not yet successfully completed probe. This is the code
    structure the patch is returning to, via the revert.
    
    Fixes: 3ac8eed6 ("net: phy: Uniform PHY driver access")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914140515.2311548-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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