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Date:   Thu, 24 May 2018 15:22:02 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@...tor.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] ravb: remove custom .nway_reset from ethtool ops

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:11:53PM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> The change fixes a sleep in atomic context issue, which can be
> always triggered by running 'ethtool -r' command, because
> phy_start_aneg() protects phydev fields by a mutex.
> 
> Another note is that the change implicitly replaces phy_start_aneg()
> with a newer phy_restart_aneg().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@...tor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 17 +----------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> index 68f122140966..4a043eb0e2aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> @@ -1150,21 +1150,6 @@ static int ravb_set_link_ksettings(struct net_device *ndev,
>  	return error;
>  }
>  
> -static int ravb_nway_reset(struct net_device *ndev)
> -{
> -	struct ravb_private *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
> -	int error = -ENODEV;
> -	unsigned long flags;
> -
> -	if (ndev->phydev) {
> -		spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
> -		error = phy_start_aneg(ndev->phydev);
> -		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
> -	}

Eck! phylib assumes thread context and takes a mutex while calling
into the PHY driver.

It would be good to add some sort of fixes: tag. Maybe for the commit
that added the generic nway_reset? That would at least cover some
stable kernels.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew