Patch "net: phy: relax error checking when creating sysfs link netdev->phydev" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: phy: relax error checking when creating sysfs link netdev->phydev

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-phy-relax-error-checking-when-creating-sysfs-link-netdev-phydev.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Mar 28 18:37:51 CEST 2018

From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:08:35 -0500
Subject: net: phy: relax error checking when creating sysfs link netdev->phydev

From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>


[ Upstream commit 4414b3ed74be0e205e04e12cd83542a727d88255 ]

Some ethernet drivers (like TI CPSW) may connect and manage >1 Net PHYs per
one netdevice, as result such drivers will produce warning during system
boot and fail to connect second phy to netdevice when PHYLIB framework
will try to create sysfs link netdev->phydev for second PHY
in phy_attach_direct(), because sysfs link with the same name has been
created already for the first PHY. As result, second CPSW external
port will became unusable.

Fix it by relaxing error checking when PHYLIB framework is creating sysfs
link netdev->phydev in phy_attach_direct(), suppressing warning by using
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() and adding error message instead.
After this change links (phy->netdev and netdev->phy) creation failure is not
fatal any more and system can continue working, which fixes TI CPSW issue.

Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Fixes: a3995460491d ("net: phy: Relax error checking on sysfs_create_link()")
Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c |   15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c

@@ -999,10 +999,17 @@ int phy_attach_direct(struct net_device
 	err = sysfs_create_link(&phydev->mdio.dev.kobj, &dev->dev.kobj,
 				"attached_dev");
 	if (!err) {
-		err = sysfs_create_link(&dev->dev.kobj, &phydev->mdio.dev.kobj,
-					"phydev");
-		if (err)
-			goto error;
+		err = sysfs_create_link_nowarn(&dev->dev.kobj,
+					       &phydev->mdio.dev.kobj,
+					       "phydev");
+		if (err) {
+			dev_err(&dev->dev, "could not add device link to %s err %d\n",
+				kobject_name(&phydev->mdio.dev.kobj),
+				err);
+			/* non-fatal - some net drivers can use one netdevice
+			 * with more then one phy
+			 */
+		}
 
 		phydev->sysfs_links = true;
 	}

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from grygorii.strashko@ti.com are

queue-4.15/sysfs-symlink-export-sysfs_create_link_nowarn.patch
queue-4.15/net-ethernet-ti-cpsw-add-check-for-in-band-mode-setting-with-rgmii-phy-interface.patch
queue-4.15/net-phy-relax-error-checking-when-creating-sysfs-link-netdev-phydev.patch