Re: [PATCH] net: phy: adin1100: Fix nullptr exception for phy interrupts

Andre Werner
2024-01-19T06:31:01Z

On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Heiner Kallweit wrote:

> On 18.01.2024 21:09, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 06:36:16PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>>> On 18.01.2024 17:53, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Andre Werner wrote:
>>>>> If using ADIN1100 as an external phy, e.g. in combination with
>>>>> "smsc95xx", we ran into nullptr exception by creating a link.
>>>>>
>>>>> In our case the "smsc95xx" does not check for an available interrupt handler
>>>>> on external phy driver to use poll instead of interrupts if no handler is
>>>>> available. So we decide to implement a small handler in the phy driver
>>>>> to support other MACs as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> I update the driver to add an interrupt handler because libphy
>>>>> does not check if their is a interrupt handler available either.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are several interrupts maskable at the phy, but only link change interrupts
>>>>> are handled by the driver yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> We tested the combination "smsc95xx" and "adin1100" with Linux Kernel 6.6.9
>>>>> and Linux Kernel 6.1.0, respectively.
>>>>
>>>> Hi Andre
>>>>
>>>> A few different things....
>>>>
>>>> Please could you give more details of the null pointer
>>>> exception. phylib should test if the needed methods have been
>>>> implemented in the PHY driver, and not tried to use interrupts when
>>>> they are missing. It should of polled the PHY. So i would like to
>>>> understand what went wrong. Maybe we have a phylib core bug we should
>>>> be fixing. Or a bug in the smsc95xx driver.
>>>>
>>> Seems to be a bug in smsc95xx. The following is the relevant code piece.
>>>
>>> ret = mdiobus_register(pdata->mdiobus);
>>> if (ret) {
>>> netdev_err(dev->net, "Could not register MDIO bus\n");
>>> goto free_mdio;
>>> }
>>>
>>> pdata->phydev = phy_find_first(pdata->mdiobus);
>>> if (!pdata->phydev) {
>>> netdev_err(dev->net, "no PHY found\n");
>>> ret = -ENODEV;
>>> goto unregister_mdio;
>>> }
>>>
>>> pdata->phydev->irq = phy_irq;
>>>
>>> The interrupt is set too late, after phy_probe(), where we have this:
>>>
>>> if (!phy_drv_supports_irq(phydrv) && phy_interrupt_is_valid(phydev))
>>> phydev->irq = PHY_POLL;
>>>
>>> So we would have two steps:
>>> 1. Fix the smsc95xx bug (as the same issue could occur with another PHY type)
>>
>> Its not so nice to fix.
>>
>> Normally you would do something like:
>>
>> pdata->mdiobus->priv = dev;
>> pdata->mdiobus->read = smsc95xx_mdiobus_read;
>> pdata->mdiobus->write = smsc95xx_mdiobus_write;
>> pdata->mdiobus->reset = smsc95xx_mdiobus_reset;
>> pdata->mdiobus->name = "smsc95xx-mdiobus";
>> pdata->mdiobus->parent = &dev->udev->dev;
>>
>> snprintf(pdata->mdiobus->id, ARRAY_SIZE(pdata->mdiobus->id),
>> "usb-%03d:%03d", dev->udev->bus->busnum, dev->udev->devnum);
>>
>> pdata->mdiobus->irq[X] = phy_irq;
>>
>> ret = mdiobus_register(pdata->mdiobus);
>>
>> By setting pdata->mdiobus->irq[X] before registering the PHY, the irq
>> number gets passed to the phydev->irq very early on. If everything is
>> O.K, interrupts are then used.
>>
>> However, because of the use of phy_find_first(), we have no idea what
>> address on the bus the PHY is using. So we don't know which member of
>> irq[] to set. Its not ideal, but one solution is to set them all.
>>
>> However, a better solution is to perform the validation again in
>> phy_attach_direct(). Add a second:
>>
>> if (!phy_drv_supports_irq(phydrv) && phy_interrupt_is_valid(phydev))
>> phydev->irq = PHY_POLL;

I add this check into phy_device.c-> phy_attach_direct as a work around
for now. I will send a new patch set to net-next as suggested.

>>
> This would save us here, but can't prevent that phydev->irq may be set
> even later. I think, ideally nobody should ever access phydev->irq directly.
> There should be a setter which performs the needed checks.
> But it may be a longer journey to make parts of struct phy_device private
> to phylib.
>
>> which will force phydev->irq back to polling.
>>
>> Andrew
>
> Heiner
>

Regards,

Andre