From 526c8ee04bdbd4d8d19a583b1f3b06700229a815 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marek Behún Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 11:19:04 +0200 Subject: net: dsa: qca8k: fix potential MDIO bus conflict when accessing internal PHYs via management frames MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Besides the QCA8337 switch the Turris 1.x device has on it's MDIO bus also Micron ethernet PHY (dedicated to the WAN port). We've been experiencing a strange behavior of the WAN ethernet interface, wherein the WAN PHY started timing out the MDIO accesses, for example when the interface was brought down and then back up. Bisecting led to commit 2cd548566384 ("net: dsa: qca8k: add support for phy read/write with mgmt Ethernet"), which added support to access the QCA8337 switch's internal PHYs via management ethernet frames. Connecting the MDIO bus pins onto an oscilloscope, I was able to see that the MDIO bus was active whenever a request to read/write an internal PHY register was done via an management ethernet frame. My theory is that when the switch core always communicates with the internal PHYs via the MDIO bus, even when externally we request the access via ethernet. This MDIO bus is the same one via which the switch and internal PHYs are accessible to the board, and the board may have other devices connected on this bus. An ASCII illustration may give more insight: +---------+ +----| | | | WAN PHY | | +--| | | | +---------+ | | | | +----------------------------------+ | | | QCA8337 | MDC | | | +-------+ | ------o-+--|--------o------------o--| | | MDIO | | | | | PHY 1 |-|--to RJ45 --------o--|---o----+---------o--+--| | | | | | | | +-------+ | | +-------------+ | o--| | | | | MDIO MDC | | | | PHY 2 |-|--to RJ45 eth1 | | | o--+--| | | -----------|-|port0 | | | +-------+ | | | | | o--| | | | | switch core | | | | PHY 3 |-|--to RJ45 | +-------------+ o--+--| | | | | | +-------+ | | | o--| ... | | +----------------------------------+ When we send a request to read an internal PHY register via an ethernet management frame via eth1, the switch core receives the ethernet frame on port 0 and then communicates with the internal PHY via MDIO. At this time, other potential devices, such as the WAN PHY on Turris 1.x, cannot use the MDIO bus, since it may cause a bus conflict. Fix this issue by locking the MDIO bus even when we are accessing the PHY registers via ethernet management frames. Fixes: 2cd548566384 ("net: dsa: qca8k: add support for phy read/write with mgmt Ethernet") Signed-off-by: Marek Behún Reviewed-by: Christian Marangi Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/dsa/qca') diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c index d2df30640269..4ce68e655a63 100644 --- a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c @@ -666,6 +666,15 @@ qca8k_phy_eth_command(struct qca8k_priv *priv, bool read, int phy, goto err_read_skb; } + /* It seems that accessing the switch's internal PHYs via management + * packets still uses the MDIO bus within the switch internally, and + * these accesses can conflict with external MDIO accesses to other + * devices on the MDIO bus. + * We therefore need to lock the MDIO bus onto which the switch is + * connected. + */ + mutex_lock(&priv->bus->mdio_lock); + /* Actually start the request: * 1. Send mdio master packet * 2. Busy Wait for mdio master command @@ -678,6 +687,7 @@ qca8k_phy_eth_command(struct qca8k_priv *priv, bool read, int phy, mgmt_master = priv->mgmt_master; if (!mgmt_master) { mutex_unlock(&mgmt_eth_data->mutex); + mutex_unlock(&priv->bus->mdio_lock); ret = -EINVAL; goto err_mgmt_master; } @@ -765,6 +775,7 @@ exit: QCA8K_ETHERNET_TIMEOUT); mutex_unlock(&mgmt_eth_data->mutex); + mutex_unlock(&priv->bus->mdio_lock); return ret; -- cgit