Stefan Wahren reports a problem with a warning fix that was merged for v4.15: we had lots of device nodes with a 'phys' property pointing to a device node that is not compliant with the binding documented in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-bindings.txt

This generally works because USB HCD drivers that support both the generic phy subsystem and the older usb-phy subsystem ignore most errors from phy_get() and related calls and then use the usb-phy driver instead.

However, it turns out that making the usb-nop-xceiv device compatible with the generic-phy binding changes the phy_get() return code from -EINVAL to -EPROBE_DEFER, and the dwc2 usb controller driver for bcm2835 now returns -EPROBE_DEFER from its probe function rather than ignoring the failure, breaking all USB support on raspberry-pi when CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY is enabled. The same code is used in the dwc3 driver and the usb_add_hcd() function, so a reasonable assumption would be that many other platforms are affected as well.

I have reviewed all the related patches and concluded that "usb-nop-xceiv" is the only USB phy that is affected by the change, and since it is by far the most commonly referenced phy, all the other USB phy drivers appear to be used in ways that are are either safe in DT (they don't use the 'phys' property), or in the driver (they already ignore -EPROBE_DEFER from generic-phy when usb-phy is available).

To work around the problem, this adds a special case to _of_phy_get() so we ignore any PHY node that is compatible with "usb-nop-xceiv", as we know that this can never load no matter how much we defer. In the future, we might implement a generic-phy driver for "usb-nop-xceiv" and then remove this workaround.

Since we generally want older kernels to also want to work with the fixed devicetree files, it would be good to backport the patch into stable kernels as well (3.13+ are possibly affected), even though they don't contain any of the patches that may have caused regressions.

Fixes: 014d6da6cb25 ARM: dts: bcm283x: Fix DTC warnings about missing phy-cells Fixes: c5bbf358b790 arm: dts: nspire: Add missing #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv Fixes: 44e5dced2ef6 arm: dts: marvell: Add missing #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv Fixes: f568f6f554b8 ARM: dts: omap: Add missing #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv Fixes: d745d5f277bf ARM: dts: imx51-zii-rdu1: Add missing #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv Fixes: 915fbe59cbf2 ARM: dts: imx: Add missing #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=151518314314753&w=2 Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10158145/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren@i2se.com Cc: Felipe Balbi balbi@kernel.org Cc: Eric Anholt eric@anholt.net Tested-by: Hans Verkuil hans.verkuil@cisco.com Acked-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I kishon@ti.com Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de --- Hans tested the earlier version of this patch, I'd like one more confirmation from Hans or Stefan (or anyone else) that this version addresses the regression as well before this gets merged.

Greg, can you pick this up into usb-linus for v4.15 once the fix has been confirmed, or should I merge it through arm-soc? --- drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c index b4964b067aec..8f6e8e28996d 100644 --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c @@ -410,6 +410,10 @@ static struct phy *_of_phy_get(struct device_node *np, int index) if (ret) return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);

+ /* This phy type handled by the usb-phy subsystem for now */ + if (of_device_is_compatible(args.np, "usb-nop-xceiv")) + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); + mutex_lock(&phy_provider_mutex); phy_provider = of_phy_provider_lookup(args.np); if (IS_ERR(phy_provider) || !try_module_get(phy_provider->owner)) {