netdev - WoL broken in r8169.c since kernel 4.19

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Date:   Sat, 12 Jan 2019 21:08:31 +0100
From:   Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@...schlus.de>
To:     Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@...oo.ca>,
        Anthony Wong <anthony.wong@...ntu.com>,
        Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Jian-Hong Pan <jian-hong@...lessm.com>,
        Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>,
        "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
Subject: WoL broken in r8169.c since kernel 4.19

Hi,

I am writing to all people who have commits in r8169.c between the v4.18
and v4.19 tags in the Linux kernel. Please ignore as appropriate. If
you'd prefer that to be on a mailing list, please indicate on which list
you want to have that, and I'll resend.

My desktop copmuter has the following network interface:

06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8P67 and other motherboards
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
        NUMA node: 0
        Region 0: I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
        Region 2: Memory at fdfff000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Region 4: Memory at fdff8000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169

I regularly buíld a VPN tunnel to my local network from 'on the road'
and use WoL to wake up the desktop box when I need it.

Since kernel 4.19, that does not work any more, the desktop remains
suspended when I send it a magic packet. This still applies to 4.20.1,
and it still works with any 4.18 kernel.

I transplanted the 4.18 r8169.c into 4.20.1, and then WoL worked again.
Thus, the issue must have been introduced between 4.18 and 4.19.

Does anybody of you have an idea how to find the issue in the 4.20 code?

I have seen 648458fe97b5c0630435fa2b2cd65ba57ceb18e0 in 4.19.14 and
tried applying it to 4.20.1 (was necessary to do it manually because the
patch wouldn't apply), but that one didn't help.

4.19.14, which has a WoL-related patch applied, doesn't wake on LAN as
well.

I tried bisecting for r8169.c between v4.18 and v4.19, but right the
first step didn't even boot far enough for the disk password prompt, so
I am at a loss here.

Any ideas?

Greetings
Marc

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