Re: [REGRESSION] AX88772 card booted without cable can't receive

[Anton Lundin]

On 24 June, 2022 - Oleksij Rempel wrote:

> Hi Anton,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 08:36:49AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > Hi Anton,
> > 
> > Thank you for your report! I'll take a look on it ASAP.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Oleksij
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 04:16:38PM +0200, Anton Lundin wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > I've found a issue with a Dlink usb ether adapter, that can't receive
> > > anything until it self transmits if it's plugged in while booting, and
> > > doesn't have link.
> > > 
> > > Later when a cable is attached, link is detected but nothing is received
> > > either by daemons listening to ip address on that interface, or seen
> > > with tcpdump.
> > > 
> > > The dongle is a:
> > > D-Link Corp. DUB-E100 Fast Ethernet Adapter(rev.C1) [ASIX AX88772]
> > > 
> > > And it's detected at boot as:
> > > libphy: Asix MDIO Bus: probed
> > > Asix Electronics AX88772C usb-003:004:10: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=usb-003:004:10, irq=POLL)
> > > asix 3-10.4:1.0 eth1: register 'asix' at usb-0000:00:14.0-10.4, ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 Ethernet, <masked-mac>
> > > usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
> > > 
> > > 
> > > While in this state, the hardware starts sending pause frames to the
> > > network when it has recived a couple of frames, and they look like:
> > > 0000   01 80 c2 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 08 00 01
> > > 0010   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > > 0020   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > > 0030   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > > 
> > > 0000   01 80 c2 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 08 00 01
> > > 0010   ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > > 0020   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > > 0030   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > > 
> > > And these two frames are repeated every couple of seconds.
> > > 
> > > The card wakes up when something triggers a transmit on that card, and
> > > then starts receiving traffic as normal.
> > > 
> > > I've bisected this issue down to:
> > > "net: usb: asix: ax88772: add phylib support" (e532a096be0e)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Reverting that makes the interface work as normal, even if the machine
> > > boots without a cable plugged in.
> > > 
> > > Another issue found with exactly the same patch is that if it's loaded
> > > as a module, then unloaded and loaded again, it fails to initialize the
> > > card with:
> > > 
> > > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/mdio_bus/usb-003:004'
> > > CPU: 0 PID: 3733 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G           O      5.15.10-core_64_preempt #3
> > > Hardware name:  <masked-hardware-name>
> > > Call Trace:
> > >  <TASK>
> > >  ? dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
> > >  ? sysfs_warn_dup.cold+0x17/0x24
> > >  ? sysfs_create_dir_ns+0xbc/0xd0
> > >  ? kobject_add_internal+0xa6/0x260
> > >  ? kobject_add+0x7e/0xb0
> > >  ? preempt_count_add+0x68/0xa0
> > >  ? device_add+0x10f/0x8d0
> > >  ? dev_set_name+0x53/0x70
> > >  ? __mdiobus_register+0xc2/0x350
> > >  ? __devm_mdiobus_register+0x64/0xb0
> > >  ? ax88772_bind+0x22a/0x340 [asix]
> > >  ? usbnet_probe+0x346/0x870
> > >  ? usb_match_dynamic_id+0x8f/0xa0
> > >  ? usb_probe_interface+0x9b/0x150
> > >  ? really_probe.part.0+0x237/0x280
> > >  ? __driver_probe_device+0x8c/0xd0
> > >  ? driver_probe_device+0x1e/0xe0
> > >  ? __driver_attach+0xa8/0x170
> > >  ? __device_attach_driver+0xe0/0xe0
> > >  ? bus_for_each_dev+0x77/0xc0
> > >  ? bus_add_driver+0x10b/0x1c0
> > >  ? driver_register+0x8b/0xe0
> > >  ? usb_register_driver+0x84/0x120
> > >  ? 0xffffffffc06e4000
> > >  ? do_one_initcall+0x41/0x1f0
> > >  ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x3f/0x1b0
> > >  ? do_init_module+0x5c/0x260
> > >  ? __do_sys_finit_module+0xa0/0xe0
> > >  ? do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
> > >  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> > >  </TASK>
> > > kobject_add_internal failed for usb-003:004 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
> > > libphy: mii_bus usb-003:004 failed to register
> > > asix: probe of 3-10.4:1.0 failed with error -22 
> > > usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Both these issues with "net: usb: asix: ax88772: add phylib support"
> > > (e532a096be0e) can be reproduced all the way from when it was introduced
> > > to linus current tree.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm sorry to say that I don't know enough about either libphy or asix to
> > > figure out what cause the issues can be.
> 
> It looks like we have here 3 different bugs:
> - no rx before tx
>   addresses by this patch:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220624075139.3139300-1-o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> - pause frames flood without advertising pause frames support
>   addresses by this patch:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220624075139.3139300-2-o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
>   Can you please test this patches.

I've tested these and after these patches I think these two issues are
fixed.

If you'd like you can add:
Tested-by: Anton Lundin <glance@xxxxxxxxxx>


> - not everything is properly cleaned after module unload.
> 
> The last one i as bit more complicated. Lukas Wunner spend last months to solve
> this issues:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/d1c87ebe9fc502bffcd1576e238d685ad08321e4.1655987888.git.lukas@xxxxxxxxx/
> 

Ok, no worries. If it's already known and fixed in later revisions, I'm
fine with that.


//Anton