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    phy state machine: failsafe leave invalid RUNNING state · 811a9191
    Zefir Kurtisi authored
    While in RUNNING state, phy_state_machine() checks for link changes by
    comparing phydev->link before and after calling phy_read_status().
    This works as long as it is guaranteed that phydev->link is never
    changed outside the phy_state_machine().
    
    If in some setups this happens, it causes the state machine to miss
    a link loss and remain RUNNING despite phydev->link being 0.
    
    This has been observed running a dsa setup with a process continuously
    polling the link states over ethtool each second (SNMPD RFC-1213
    agent). Disconnecting the link on a phy followed by a ETHTOOL_GSET
    causes dsa_slave_get_settings() / dsa_slave_get_link_ksettings() to
    call phy_read_status() and with that modify the link status - and
    with that bricking the phy state machine.
    
    This patch adds a fail-safe check while in RUNNING, which causes to
    move to CHANGELINK when the link is gone and we are still RUNNING.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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