Re: net: phy: realtek: regression, kernel null pointer dereference

[Vicente Bergas <vicencb@gmail.com>]

On Monday, May 13, 2019 12:51:05 PM CEST, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 01:29:42PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
>> Hello Vincente,
>> 
>> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 05:06:04PM +0200, Vicente Bergas wrote: ...
>
> Hmm, just figured out, that in the datasheet RXDLY/TXDLY pins 
> are actually grounded, so
> phy-mode="rgmii" should work for you. Are you sure that on your 
> actual hardware the
> resistors aren't placed differently?

That is correct, the schematic has pull-down resistors and placeholders for
pull-up resistors. On the board I can confirm the pull-ups are not
populated and the pull-downs are.
But the issue seems unrelated to this.

I have traced it down to a deadlock while trying to acquire a mutex.
It hangs here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/phy/realtek.c?id=47782361aca2#n220
while waiting for this mutex:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c?id=47782361aca2#n692

Regards,
  Vicenç.

> The current config register state can be read from the 0x1c 
> extension page. Something
> like this:
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/realtek.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/realtek.c
> @@ -221,6 +221,9 @@ static int rtl8211e_config_init(struct 
> phy_device *phydev)
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto err_restore_page;
>  
> +	ret = phy_read(phydev, 0x1c);
> +	dev_info(&phydev->mdio.dev, "PHY config register %08x\n", ret);
> +
>  	ret = phy_modify(phydev, 0x1c, RTL8211E_TX_DELAY | RTL8211E_RX_DELAY,
>  			 val);
>  
> -Sergey