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authorFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>2017-05-27 10:42:25 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-05-27 19:58:15 -0400
commita3995460491d4570af8e99ad34ddf6d1948254d9 (patch)
tree313b863d836c17e3ff8ffdcf12bde15576b2f6bd
parent523a89041c319bc0f6df60627ccb2413f441fb84 (diff)
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net: phy: Relax error checking on sysfs_create_link()
Some Ethernet drivers will attach/connect to a PHY device before calling register_netdevice() which is responsible for calling netdev_register_kobject() which would do the network device's kobject initialization. In such a case, sysfs_create_link() would return -ENOENT because the network device's kobject is not ready yet, and we would fail to connect to the PHY device. In order to keep things simple and symetrical, we just take the success path as indicative of the ability to access the network device's kobject, and create the second link if that's the case. Fixes: 5568363f0cb3 ("net: phy: Create sysfs reciprocal links for attached_dev/phydev") Reported-by: Woojung Hung <Woojung.Huh@microchip.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c30
-rw-r--r--include/linux/phy.h2
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index f84414b8f2ee..37a1e98908e3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -960,15 +960,27 @@ int phy_attach_direct(struct net_device *dev, struct phy_device *phydev,
phydev->attached_dev = dev;
dev->phydev = phydev;
+
+ /* Some Ethernet drivers try to connect to a PHY device before
+ * calling register_netdevice() -> netdev_register_kobject() and
+ * does the dev->dev.kobj initialization. Here we only check for
+ * success which indicates that the network device kobject is
+ * ready. Once we do that we still need to keep track of whether
+ * links were successfully set up or not for phy_detach() to
+ * remove them accordingly.
+ */
+ phydev->sysfs_links = false;
+
err = sysfs_create_link(&phydev->mdio.dev.kobj, &dev->dev.kobj,
"attached_dev");
- if (err)
- goto error;
+ if (!err) {
+ err = sysfs_create_link(&dev->dev.kobj, &phydev->mdio.dev.kobj,
+ "phydev");
+ if (err)
+ goto error;
- err = sysfs_create_link(&dev->dev.kobj, &phydev->mdio.dev.kobj,
- "phydev");
- if (err)
- goto error;
+ phydev->sysfs_links = true;
+ }
phydev->dev_flags = flags;
@@ -1059,8 +1071,10 @@ void phy_detach(struct phy_device *phydev)
struct mii_bus *bus;
int i;
- sysfs_remove_link(&dev->dev.kobj, "phydev");
- sysfs_remove_link(&phydev->mdio.dev.kobj, "attached_dev");
+ if (phydev->sysfs_links) {
+ sysfs_remove_link(&dev->dev.kobj, "phydev");
+ sysfs_remove_link(&phydev->mdio.dev.kobj, "attached_dev");
+ }
phydev->attached_dev->phydev = NULL;
phydev->attached_dev = NULL;
phy_suspend(phydev);
diff --git a/include/linux/phy.h b/include/linux/phy.h
index 5a808a26e4cf..58f1b45a4c44 100644
--- a/include/linux/phy.h
+++ b/include/linux/phy.h
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ struct phy_c45_device_ids {
* is_pseudo_fixed_link: Set to true if this phy is an Ethernet switch, etc.
* has_fixups: Set to true if this phy has fixups/quirks.
* suspended: Set to true if this phy has been suspended successfully.
+ * sysfs_links: Internal boolean tracking sysfs symbolic links setup/removal.
* state: state of the PHY for management purposes
* dev_flags: Device-specific flags used by the PHY driver.
* link_timeout: The number of timer firings to wait before the
@@ -399,6 +400,7 @@ struct phy_device {
bool is_pseudo_fixed_link;
bool has_fixups;
bool suspended;
+ bool sysfs_links;
enum phy_state state;