drivers/net/phy/aquantia/aquantia_firmware.c · 194ef9d0de9021df4a0ba8b112f91e56adaddd22 · Kirill Smelkov / linux

The author of the blamed commit apparently did not notice something about aqr_wait_reset_complete(): it polls the exact same register - MDIO_MMD_VEND1:VEND1_GLOBAL_FW_ID - as aqr_firmware_load(). Thus, the entire logic after the introduction of aqr_wait_reset_complete() is now completely side-stepped, because if aqr_wait_reset_complete() succeeds, MDIO_MMD_VEND1:VEND1_GLOBAL_FW_ID could have only been a non-zero value. The handling of the case where the register reads as 0 is dead code, due to the previous -ETIMEDOUT having stopped execution and returning a fatal error to the caller. We never attempt to load new firmware if no firmware is present. Based on static code analysis, I guess we should simply introduce a switch/case statement based on the return code from aqr_wait_reset_complete(), to determine whether to load firmware or not. I am not intending to change the procedure through which the driver determines whether to load firmware or not, as I am unaware of alternative possibilities. At the same time, Russell King suggests that if aqr_wait_reset_complete() is expected to return -ETIMEDOUT as part of normal operation and not just catastrophic failure, the use of phy_read_mmd_poll_timeout() is improper, since that has an embedded print inside. Just open-code a call to read_poll_timeout() to avoid printing -ETIMEDOUT, but continue printing actual read errors from the MDIO bus. Fixes: ("net: phy: aquantia: wait for FW reset before checking the vendor ID") Reported-by: