net: dsa: realtek: rtl8365mb: serialize indirect PHY register access
Realtek switches in the rtl8365mb family can access the PHY registers of the internal PHYs via the switch registers. This method is called indirect access. At a high level, the indirect PHY register access method involves reading and writing some special switch registers in a particular sequence. This works for both SMI and MDIO connected switches. Currently the rtl8365mb driver does not take any care to serialize the aforementioned access to the switch registers. In particular, it is permitted for other driver code to access other switch registers while the indirect PHY register access is ongoing. Locking is only done at the regmap level. This, however, is a bug: concurrent register access, even to unrelated switch registers, risks corrupting the PHY register value read back via the indirect access method described above. Arınç reported that the switch sometimes returns nonsense data when reading the PHY registers. In particular, a value of 0 causes the kernel's PHY subsystem to think that the link is down, but since most reads return correct data, the link then flip-flops between up and down over a period of time. The aforementioned bug can be readily observed by: 1. Enabling ftrace events for regmap and mdio 2. Polling BSMR PHY register for a connected port; it should always read the same (e.g. 0x79ed) 3. Wait for step 2 to give a different value Example command for step 2: while true; do phytool read swp2/2/0x01; done On my i.MX8MM, the above steps will yield a bogus value for the BSMR PHY register within a matter of seconds. The interleaved register access it then evident in the trace log: kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.139849: regmap_reg_write: ethernet-switch reg=1004 val=bd phytool-16816 [002] ....... 1927.139979: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1f01 val=0 kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.140381: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1005 val=0 phytool-16816 [002] ....... 1927.140468: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1d15 val=a69 kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.140864: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1003 val=0 phytool-16816 [002] ....... 1927.140955: regmap_reg_write: ethernet-switch reg=1f02 val=2041 kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.141390: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1002 val=0 phytool-16816 [002] ....... 1927.141479: regmap_reg_write: ethernet-switch reg=1f00 val=1 kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.142311: regmap_reg_write: ethernet-switch reg=1004 val=be phytool-16816 [002] ....... 1927.142410: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1f01 val=0 kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.142534: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1005 val=0 phytool-16816 [002] ....... 1927.142618: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1f04 val=0 phytool-16816 [002] ....... 1927.142641: mdio_access: SMI-0 read phy:0x02 reg:0x01 val:0x0000 <- ?! kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.143037: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1001 val=0 kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.143133: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1000 val=2d89 kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.143213: regmap_reg_write: ethernet-switch reg=1004 val=be kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.143291: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1005 val=0 kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.143368: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1003 val=0 kworker/3:4-70 [003] ....... 1927.143443: regmap_reg_read: ethernet-switch reg=1002 val=6 The kworker here is polling MIB counters for stats, as evidenced by the register 0x1004 that we are writing to (RTL8365MB_MIB_ADDRESS_REG). This polling is performed every 3 seconds, but is just one example of such unsynchronized access. In Arınç's case, the driver was not using the switch IRQ, so the PHY subsystem was itself doing polling analogous to phytool in the above example. A test module was created [see second Link] to simulate such spurious switch register accesses while performing indirect PHY register reads and writes. Realtek was also consulted to confirm whether this is a known issue or not. The conclusion of these lines of inquiry is as follows: 1. Reading of PHY registers via indirect access will be aborted if, after executing the read operation (via a write to the INDIRECT_ACCESS_CTRL_REG), any register is accessed, other than INDIRECT_ACCESS_STATUS_REG. 2. The PHY register indirect read is only complete when INDIRECT_ACCESS_STATUS_REG reads zero. 3. The INDIRECT_ACCESS_DATA_REG, which is read to get the result of the PHY read, will contain the result of the last successful read operation. If there was spurious register access and the indirect read was aborted, then this register is not guaranteed to hold anything meaningful and the PHY read will silently fail. 4. PHY writes do not appear to be affected by this mechanism. 5. Other similar access routines, such as for MIB counters, although similar to the PHY indirect access method, are actually table access. Table access is not affected by spurious reads or writes of other registers. However, concurrent table access is not allowed. Currently this is protected via mib_lock, so there is nothing to fix. The above statements are corroborated both via the test module and through consultation with Realtek. In particular, Realtek states that this is simply a property of the hardware design and is not a hardware bug. To fix this problem, one must guard against regmap access while the PHY indirect register read is executing. Fix this by using the newly introduced "nolock" regmap in all PHY-related functions, and by aquiring the regmap mutex at the top level of the PHY register access callbacks. Although no issue has been observed with PHY register _writes_, this change also serializes the indirect access method there. This is done purely as a matter of convenience and for reasons of symmetry. Fixes: 4af2950c ("net: dsa: realtek-smi: add rtl8365mb subdriver for RTL8365MB-VC") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAJq09z5FCgG-+jVT7uxh1a-0CiiFsoKoHYsAWJtiKwv7LXKofQ@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/871qzwjmtv.fsf@bang-olufsen.dk/Reported-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@arinc9.com> Reported-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@bang-olufsen.dk> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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