Re: Lockup in phy_probe() for MDIO device (Broadcom's switch)

On 30.09.2021 14:30, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:

quoted

It's actually OpenWrt's downstream swconfig-based b53 driver that
matches this device.

I'm confused as downstream b53_mdio.c calls phy_driver_register(). Why
does it match MDIO device then? I thought MDIO devices should be
matches only with drivers using mdio_driver_register().

Note that I've no idea what he swconfig-based b53 driver looks like,
I don't have the source for that to hand.

If it calls phy_driver_register(), then it is registering a driver for
a MDIO device wrapped in a struct phy_device. If this driver has a
.of_match_table member set, then this is wrong - the basic rule is

	PHY drivers must never match using DT compatibles.

because this is exactly what will occur - it bypasses the check that
the mdio_device being matched is in fact wrapped by a struct phy_device,
and we will access members of the non-existent phy_device, including
the "uninitialised" mutex.

If the swconfig-based b53 driver does want to bind to a phy_device based
DT node, then it needs to match using either a custom .match_phy_device
method in the PHY driver, or it needs to match using the PHY IDs.

Sorry, I should have linked downstream b53_mdio.c . It's:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/generic/files/drivers/net/phy/b53/b53_mdio.c;h=98cdbffe73c7354f4401389dfcc96014bff62588;hb=HEAD

You can see that is *uses* of_match_table.

What about refusing bugged drivers like above b53 with something like:

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index b848439fa..76c8197d3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c

@@ -941,6 +941,10 @@ static int mdio_bus_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
  {
         struct mdio_device *mdio = to_mdio_device(dev);

+       if (WARN_ONCE(!(mdio->flags & MDIO_DEVICE_FLAG_PHY),
+                "Bugged driver %s\n", drv->name))
+               return 0;
+
         if (of_driver_match_device(dev, drv))
                 return 1;