Re: Issue with RTL8111 NIC after upgrade to kernel 4.19

[Heiner Kallweit]

On 22.11.2018 20:29, Marc Dionne wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:17 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks a lot for testing. Could you please test also the following
>> as an alternative to the delay?
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
>> index 55202a0ac..aeccb2323 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
>> @@ -2254,6 +2254,7 @@ int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner)
>>         new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe = phy_probe;
>>         new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.remove = phy_remove;
>>         new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.owner = owner;
>> +       new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS;
>>
>>         retval = driver_register(&new_driver->mdiodrv.driver);
>>         if (retval) {
> 
> That also gets me network reliably, switching between a kernel where
> it fails (distro 4.19 kernel) and the custom kernel with the patch.
> 
Thanks again for the very quick response. The result is good and bad
news at once: good because it seems we have a fix, bad because we
don't understand the root cause of the issue yet.

>>> There's a side issue that network startup is taking a full minute
>>> longer than it should, but that's possibly unrelated.
> 
> BTW that's an unrelated rng issue, for which I have a workaround.
> 
Indeed totally unrelated, but sounds familiar. I had the same issue
on a headless system which therefore generates very little entropy.
I fixed it by setting CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU=y

>>>
>> Thanks, Heiner
> 
> Marc
> 
Heiner