From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Sasha Levin To: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Antoine Tenart , "David S . Miller" , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 057/146] net: phy: phylink: ensure the carrier is off when starting phylink Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:04:12 -0400 Message-Id: <20181031230541.28822-57-sashal@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20181031230541.28822-1-sashal@kernel.org> References: <20181031230541.28822-1-sashal@kernel.org> List-ID: From: Antoine Tenart [ Upstream commit aeeb2e8fdefdd5d257a1446351c70cb3df540199 ] Phylink made an assumption about the carrier state being down when calling phylink_start(). If this assumption isn't satisfied, the internal phylink state could misbehave and a net device could end up not being functional. This patch fixes this by explicitly calling netif_carrier_off() in phylink_start(). Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart Acked-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c index 7abca86c3aa9..70f3f90c2ed6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c @@ -907,6 +907,9 @@ void phylink_start(struct phylink *pl) phylink_an_mode_str(pl->link_an_mode), phy_modes(pl->link_config.interface)); + /* Always set the carrier off */ + netif_carrier_off(pl->netdev); + /* Apply the link configuration to the MAC when starting. This allows * a fixed-link to start with the correct parameters, and also * ensures that we set the appropriate advertisement for Serdes links. -- 2.17.1