This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net: phy: relax error checking when creating sysfs link netdev->phydev

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: net-phy-relax-error-checking-when-creating-sysfs-link-netdev-phydev.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Mar 28 18:38:30 CEST 2018

From: Grygorii Strashko grygorii.strashko@ti.com Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:08:35 -0500 Subject: net: phy: relax error checking when creating sysfs link netdev->phydev

From: Grygorii Strashko grygorii.strashko@ti.com

[ Upstream commit 4414b3ed74be0e205e04e12cd83542a727d88255 ]

Some ethernet drivers (like TI CPSW) may connect and manage >1 Net PHYs per one netdevice, as result such drivers will produce warning during system boot and fail to connect second phy to netdevice when PHYLIB framework will try to create sysfs link netdev->phydev for second PHY in phy_attach_direct(), because sysfs link with the same name has been created already for the first PHY. As result, second CPSW external port will became unusable.

Fix it by relaxing error checking when PHYLIB framework is creating sysfs link netdev->phydev in phy_attach_direct(), suppressing warning by using sysfs_create_link_nowarn() and adding error message instead. After this change links (phy->netdev and netdev->phy) creation failure is not fatal any more and system can continue working, which fixes TI CPSW issue.

Cc: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Cc: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch Fixes: a3995460491d ("net: phy: Relax error checking on sysfs_create_link()") Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko grygorii.strashko@ti.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c @@ -999,10 +999,17 @@ int phy_attach_direct(struct net_device err = sysfs_create_link(&phydev->mdio.dev.kobj, &dev->dev.kobj, "attached_dev"); if (!err) { - err = sysfs_create_link(&dev->dev.kobj, &phydev->mdio.dev.kobj, - "phydev"); - if (err) - goto error; + err = sysfs_create_link_nowarn(&dev->dev.kobj, + &phydev->mdio.dev.kobj, + "phydev"); + if (err) { + dev_err(&dev->dev, "could not add device link to %s err %d\n", + kobject_name(&phydev->mdio.dev.kobj), + err); + /* non-fatal - some net drivers can use one netdevice + * with more then one phy + */ + }

phydev->sysfs_links = true; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from grygorii.strashko@ti.com are

queue-4.14/sysfs-symlink-export-sysfs_create_link_nowarn.patch queue-4.14/net-ethernet-ti-cpsw-add-check-for-in-band-mode-setting-with-rgmii-phy-interface.patch queue-4.14/net-phy-relax-error-checking-when-creating-sysfs-link-netdev-phydev.patch