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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Andrew Lunn Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" , Maxime Chevallier , Jakub Raczynski , Alexander Stein , Ovidiu Panait , Maxime Coquelin , Alexandre Torgue , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, regressions@lists.linux.dev, Stefan Agner Subject: [PATCH net v3] net: stmmac: resume PHY before hardware setup when opening the interface Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 11:51:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20260803095156.132827-1-stefan@agner.ch> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Since the referenced commit, changing the MTU on a running interface no longer disconnects and reconnects the PHY; __stmmac_release() merely stops phylink, which also suspends the PHY (BMCR power-down) when WoL is not enabled. __stmmac_open() then performs the DMA software reset in stmmac_hw_setup() before phylink_start() resumes the PHY again. IEEE 802.3 22.2.4.1.5 allows a PHY to stop its receive clock while powered down, and stmmac requires a running receive clock for the DMA software reset to complete (the phylink config sets mac_requires_rxc). On such setups, e.g. the RK3566-based Home Assistant Green with an RTL8211F-VD PHY in RGMII mode, any runtime MTU change now times out and leaves the interface dead: rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: Failed to reset the dma rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: stmmac_hw_setup: DMA engine initialization failed rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: __stmmac_open: Hw setup failed rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: failed reopening the interface after MTU change In the field this is triggered by NetworkManager applying an MTU while activating the connection, breaking networking entirely. The same regression has also been reported on i.MX8MP and reproduced on SoCFPGA based systems. Resume the PHY in __stmmac_open() before the hardware setup, making it the counterpart of the phylink_stop() in __stmmac_release(), like stmmac_resume() already does for the same reason. phylink_start() also resumes the PHY, but only after stmmac_hw_setup(), and it cannot be moved before the hardware setup since it may bring the link up immediately from a workqueue, racing with the initialization (see the comment in stmmac_resume()). For the regular ndo_open path the PHY has just been attached and is not suspended, in which case phylink_prepare_resume() does nothing. Fixes: db299a0c09e9 ("net: stmmac: move PHY handling out of __stmmac_open()/release()") Link: https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/4858 Tested-by: Alexander Stein Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner --- Changes in v3: - Repost with no code changes after the patch aged out of patchwork - Collect Tested-by from Alexander Stein - Mention that i.MX8MP and SoCFPGA based systems are affected as well - Defer the suggested renaming of phylink_prepare_resume() to a follow-up in net-next - Add missing Assisted-by tag Changes in v2: - Move the PHY resume from stmmac_change_mtu() into __stmmac_open() so that it also counters the PHY suspend caused by __stmmac_release() (suggested by Andrew Lunn), placed before stmmac_reset_queues_param() to match the ordering used in stmmac_resume() v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260707195425.405989-1-stefan@agner.ch/ v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260707162146.73823-1-stefan@agner.ch/ drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c @@ -4134,6 +4134,15 @@ dma_conf->tx_queue[i].tbs = priv->dma_conf.tx_queue[i].tbs; memcpy(&priv->dma_conf, dma_conf, sizeof(*dma_conf)); + /* The PHY is suspended when the interface is reopened without + * disconnecting the PHY, e.g. on MTU change. IEEE 802.3 allows PHYs + * to stop their receive clock while powered down, but the DMA + * software reset in stmmac_hw_setup() requires a running receive + * clock, and phylink_start() below resumes the PHY only after the + * hardware setup. Resume a suspended PHY here first. + */ + phylink_prepare_resume(priv->phylink); + stmmac_reset_queues_param(priv); ret = stmmac_hw_setup(dev); -- 2.49.0