Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Fix crashes due to activity during suspend

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Florian,

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:49 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/22/2017 11:37 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> If an Ethernet device is used while the device is suspended, the system may
>> crash.
>>
>> E.g. on sh73a0/kzm9g and r8a73a4/ape6evm, the external Ethernet chip is
>> driven by a PM controlled clock.  If the Ethernet registers are accessed
>> while the clock is not running, the system will crash with an imprecise
>> external abort.
>>
>> This patch series fixes two of such crashes:
>>   1. The first patch prevents the PHY polling state machine from accessing
>>      PHY registers while a device is suspended,
>>   2. The second patch prevents the net core from trying to transmit packets
>>      when an smsc911x device is suspended.
>>
>> Both crashes can be reproduced on sh73a0/kzm9g and r8a73a4/ape6evm during
>> s2ram (rarely), or by using pm_test (more likely to trigger):
>>
>>     # echo 0 > /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend
>>     # echo platform > /sys/power/pm_test
>>     # echo mem > /sys/power/state
>>
>> With this series applied, my test systems survive a loop of 100 test
>> suspends.
>
> It seems to me like part, if not the entire problem is that smsc91xx's
> suspend and resume functions are way too simplistic and absolutely do
> not manage the PHY during suspend/resume, the PHY state machine is not
> even stopped, so of course, this will cause bus errors if you access
> those registers.
>
> You are addressing this as part of patch 2, but this seems to me like
> this is still a bit incomplete and you'd need at least phy_stop() and/or
> phy_suspend() (does a power down of the PHY) and phy_start() and/or
> phy_resume() calls to complete the PHY state machine shutdown during
> suspend.
>
> Have you tried that?

Thank you, I will give that a try!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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