* [PATCH 6.6.y] net: usb: lan78xx: program MAC_CR for LAN7801 fixed-PHY link
@ 2026-06-05 12:15 Nguyen Minh Tien
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From: Nguyen Minh Tien @ 2026-06-05 12:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable; +Cc: Woojung Huh, UNGLinuxDriver, netdev
While bringing up a LAN7801 wired over RGMII to an MDIO-less switch, I
hit a link that the fixed PHY reported as "up" but that could not pass a
single packet: every frame came out corrupted at the switch and no ARP
reply ever made it back.
It turned out the MAC_CR speed/duplex bits are never set on this path.
lan7801_phy_init() registers a fixed PHY at SPEED_1000/DUPLEX_FULL, but
nothing programs the MAC to match: there is no PHY state machine for a
fixed link, and lan78xx_reset() only sets the auto speed/duplex bits for
the 7800. So the 7801 comes up at 10M/half, clocks RGMII TXC at 2.5 MHz
instead of 125 MHz, and mangles everything it transmits.
Fix it by programming MAC_CR to 1G/full in the fixed-PHY branch, to match
fphy_status. Only that branch is touched, so boards with a real external
PHY (and the 7800/7850) are unaffected.
Mainline fixes this differently via the phylink conversion in v6.16,
commit e110bc825897 ("net: usb: lan78xx: Convert to PHYLINK for improved
PHY and MAC management"), which is far too large to backport, so this is
a small fix for stable only.
Please apply to 6.1.y, 6.6.y and 6.12.y, the pre-phylink branches that
still carry this bug. Built and tested on 6.6.y; the touched code is
identical on 6.1.y and 6.12.y.
Fixes: 89b36fb5e532 ("lan78xx: Lan7801 Support for Fixed PHY")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Minh Tien <zizuzacker@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c
index f5bcf150fd9e..6b94f6026472 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c
@@ -2325,6 +2325,22 @@ static struct phy_device *lan7801_phy_init(struct lan78xx_net *dev)
buf |= HW_CFG_CLK125_EN_;
buf |= HW_CFG_REFCLK25_EN_;
ret = lan78xx_write_reg(dev, HW_CFG, buf);
+
+ /* Nothing programs MAC_CR for the fixed link: reset() only
+ * sets speed/duplex for the 7800, so the 7801 is left at
+ * 10M/half and mangles every frame it sends. Force it to
+ * match the 1G/full fphy_status above.
+ */
+ ret = lan78xx_read_reg(dev, MAC_CR, &buf);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return NULL;
+ buf &= ~(MAC_CR_AUTO_DUPLEX_ | MAC_CR_AUTO_SPEED_ |
+ MAC_CR_ADP_ | MAC_CR_GMII_EN_ |
+ MAC_CR_SPEED_MASK_);
+ buf |= MAC_CR_SPEED_1000_ | MAC_CR_FULL_DUPLEX_;
+ ret = lan78xx_write_reg(dev, MAC_CR, buf);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return NULL;
} else {
if (!phydev->drv) {
netdev_err(dev->net, "no PHY driver found\n");
--
2.34.1
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