Re: Patch "net: phy: fix resume handling" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:43:48PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > When a PHY has the BMCR_PDOWN bit set, it may decide to ignore writes
> > to other registers, or reset the registers to power-on defaults.
> > Micrel PHYs do this for their interrupt registers.
> > 
> > The current structure of phylib tries to enable interrupts before
> > resuming (and releasing) the BMCR_PDOWN bit.  This fails, causing
> > Micrel PHYs to stop working after a suspend/resume sequence if they
> > are using interrupts.
> > 
> > Fix this by ensuring that the PHY driver resume methods do not take
> > the phydev->lock mutex themselves, but the callers of phy_resume()
> > take that lock.  This then allows us to move the call to phy_resume()
> > before we enable interrupts in phy_start().
> 
> Hi Greg
> 
> This patch introduces some issues. You don't want this patch on its
> own, you want it in combination with:
> 
> Fixes: 9c2c2e62df3f ("net: phy: Restore phy_resume() locking assumption")
> 
> Which went into David Millers net tree yesterday and should be making
> its way towards stable.
> 
> I suggest you hold off on this patch, until you can do both at the
> same time.

Thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped this.

greg k-h