[PATCH net 3/3] r8169:fix nic may not work after changing the mac address.

From: Chunhao Lin
Date: Wed Jul 27 2016 - 12:53:50 EST


When there is no AC power, NIC may not work after changing the mac address.
Please refer to following link.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg356572.html

This issue is caused by runtime power management. When there is no AC power,
if we put NIC down (ifconfig down), the driver will in runtime suspend state
and hardware will be put into D3 state. During this time, driver cannot access
hardware regisers. So if you set new mac address during this time, it will not
work. And then, after resume, the NIC will keep using the old mac address and
the network will not work normally.

In this patch I add detecting runtime pm status when setting mac address.
If driver is in runtime suspend state, it will skip setting mac address and
set the new mac address during runtime resume.

Signed-off-by: Chunhao Lin <hau@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
index 4a17342..ff1611e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -4480,6 +4480,7 @@ static void rtl_rar_set(struct rtl8169_private *tp, u8 *addr)
static int rtl_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
{
struct rtl8169_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
+ struct pci_dev *pdev = tp->pci_dev;
struct sockaddr *addr = p;

if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
@@ -4487,7 +4488,12 @@ static int rtl_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p)

memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);

- rtl_rar_set(tp, dev->dev_addr);
+ pm_runtime_get_noresume(&pdev->dev);
+
+ if (pm_runtime_active(&pdev->dev))
+ rtl_rar_set(tp, dev->dev_addr);
+
+ pm_runtime_put_noidle(&pdev->dev);

return 0;
}
@@ -7890,6 +7896,7 @@ static int rtl8169_runtime_resume(struct device *device)
struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(device);
struct net_device *dev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct rtl8169_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
+ rtl_rar_set(tp, dev->dev_addr);

if (!tp->TxDescArray)
return 0;
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