From: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>,
Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/4] net: b44: keep phylib ioctls outside the spinlock
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 01:48:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261113-submit-phy-mii-reset-v1-v1-1-02a55f352a91@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261113-submit-phy-mii-reset-v1-v1-0-02a55f352a91@gmail.com>
b44_ioctl() holds bp->lock with interrupts disabled while calling
phy_mii_ioctl() for an external PHY. That helper takes sleeping MDIO
mutexes and can wait for a PHY reset to complete.
Keep the spinlock around the legacy internal-PHY ioctl only. External
PHY register accesses are serialized by the MDIO bus mutex, as they
already are when called from the PHY state machine.
Fixes: 86f4ea63e696 ("b44: add phylib support")
Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c
index f994636fbd5f..e9f116dfaad9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c
@@ -2126,14 +2126,14 @@ static int b44_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
if (!netif_running(dev))
goto out;
- spin_lock_irq(&bp->lock);
if (bp->flags & B44_FLAG_EXTERNAL_PHY) {
BUG_ON(!dev->phydev);
err = phy_mii_ioctl(dev->phydev, ifr, cmd);
} else {
+ spin_lock_irq(&bp->lock);
err = generic_mii_ioctl(&bp->mii_if, if_mii(ifr), cmd, NULL);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&bp->lock);
}
- spin_unlock_irq(&bp->lock);
out:
return err;
}
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-13 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-13 8:48 [PATCH net 0/4] net: phy: restore driver state after userspace MII resets James Hilliard
2026-11-13 8:48 ` James Hilliard [this message]
2026-11-13 8:48 ` [PATCH net 2/4] net: phy: propagate MII register write errors James Hilliard
2026-11-13 8:48 ` [PATCH net 3/4] net: phy: quiesce the state machine during MII resets James Hilliard
2026-11-13 8:48 ` [PATCH net 4/4] net: phylink: reinitialize the PHY after an MII reset James Hilliard
2026-11-13 8:53 ` [PATCH net 0/4] net: phy: restore driver state after userspace MII resets netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-11-13 9:28 ` James Hilliard
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