Patch "net: stmmac: Fix race between stmmac_drv_probe and stmmac_open" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: stmmac: Fix race between stmmac_drv_probe and stmmac_open

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-stmmac-fix-race-between-stmmac_drv_probe-and-stmmac_open.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Jan 12 21:36:14 CET 2017
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 18:23:06 -0800
Subject: net: stmmac: Fix race between stmmac_drv_probe and stmmac_open

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 5701659004d68085182d2fd4199c79172165fa65 ]

There is currently a small window during which the network device registered by
stmmac can be made visible, yet all resources, including and clock and MDIO bus
have not had a chance to be set up, this can lead to the following error to
occur:

[  473.919358] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized):
                stmmac_dvr_probe: warning: cannot get CSR clock
[  473.919382] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0: no reset control found
[  473.919412] stmmac - user ID: 0x10, Synopsys ID: 0x42
[  473.919429] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0: DMA HW capability register supported
[  473.919436] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0: RX Checksum Offload Engine supported
[  473.919443] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0: TX Checksum insertion supported
[  473.919451] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized):
                Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer
[  473.921395] libphy: PHY stmmac-1:00 not found
[  473.921417] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0 eth0: Could not attach to PHY
[  473.921427] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0 eth0: stmmac_open: Cannot attach to
                PHY (error: -19)
[  473.959710] libphy: stmmac: probed
[  473.959724] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0 eth0: PHY ID 01410cc2 at 0 IRQ POLL
                (stmmac-1:00) active
[  473.959728] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0 eth0: PHY ID 01410cc2 at 1 IRQ POLL
                (stmmac-1:01)
[  473.959731] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0 eth0: PHY ID 01410cc2 at 2 IRQ POLL
                (stmmac-1:02)
[  473.959734] stmmaceth 0000:01:00.0 eth0: PHY ID 01410cc2 at 3 IRQ POLL
                (stmmac-1:03)

Fix this by making sure that register_netdev() is the last thing being done,
which guarantees that the clock and the MDIO bus are available.

Fixes: 4bfcbd7abce2 ("stmmac: Move the mdio_register/_unregister in probe/remove")
Reported-by: Kweh, Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c |   22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -2939,12 +2939,6 @@ int stmmac_dvr_probe(struct device *devi
 	spin_lock_init(&priv->lock);
 	spin_lock_init(&priv->tx_lock);
 
-	ret = register_netdev(ndev);
-	if (ret) {
-		pr_err("%s: ERROR %i registering the device\n", __func__, ret);
-		goto error_netdev_register;
-	}
-
 	/* If a specific clk_csr value is passed from the platform
 	 * this means that the CSR Clock Range selection cannot be
 	 * changed at run-time and it is fixed. Viceversa the driver'll try to
@@ -2969,11 +2963,21 @@ int stmmac_dvr_probe(struct device *devi
 		}
 	}
 
-	return 0;
+	ret = register_netdev(ndev);
+	if (ret) {
+		netdev_err(priv->dev, "%s: ERROR %i registering the device\n",
+			   __func__, ret);
+		goto error_netdev_register;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
 
-error_mdio_register:
-	unregister_netdev(ndev);
 error_netdev_register:
+	if (priv->pcs != STMMAC_PCS_RGMII &&
+	    priv->pcs != STMMAC_PCS_TBI &&
+	    priv->pcs != STMMAC_PCS_RTBI)
+		stmmac_mdio_unregister(ndev);
+error_mdio_register:
 	netif_napi_del(&priv->napi);
 error_hw_init:
 	clk_disable_unprepare(priv->pclk);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from f.fainelli@gmail.com are

queue-4.4/net-stmmac-fix-race-between-stmmac_drv_probe-and-stmmac_open.patch