From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@bootlin.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
allan.nielsen@microchip.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com,
alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] net: phy: mscc: fix deadlock in vsc85xx_default_config
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 19:03:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181123180358.GC5273@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181123180151.14183-1-quentin.schulz@bootlin.com>
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 07:01:51PM +0100, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> The vsc85xx_default_config function called in the vsc85xx_config_init
> function which is used by VSC8530, VSC8531, VSC8540 and VSC8541 PHYs
> mistakenly calls phy_read and phy_write in-between phy_select_page and
> phy_restore_page.
>
> phy_select_page and phy_restore_page actually take and release the MDIO
> bus lock and phy_write and phy_read take and release the lock to write
> or read to a PHY register.
>
> Let's fix this deadlock by using phy_modify_paged which handles
> correctly a read followed by a write in a non-standard page.
>
> Fixes: 6a0bfbbe20b0 ("net: phy: mscc: migrate to phy_select/restore_page functions")
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-23 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-23 18:01 [PATCH net v3] net: phy: mscc: fix deadlock in vsc85xx_default_config Quentin Schulz
2018-11-23 18:03 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-11-24 6:35 ` David Miller
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