From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Antoine Tenart , Russell King , "David S. Miller" , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.18 110/350] net: phy: phylink: ensure the carrier is off when starting phylink Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:19:34 -0800 Message-Id: <20181111221711.694572235@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181111221707.043394111@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181111221707.043394111@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-ID: 4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- 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.