Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add warning for truncated mdio bus id

[Jiri Pirko]

Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 03:33:24PM CET, josua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Am 20.03.24 um 15:09 schrieb Jiri Pirko:
>> Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 02:48:55PM CET, josua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> mv88e6xxx supports multiple mdio buses as children, e.g. to model both
>>> internal and external phys. If the child buses mdio ids are truncated,
>>> they might collide which each other leading to an obscure error from
>>> kobject_add.
>>>
>>> The maximum length of bus id is currently defined as 61
>>> (MII_BUS_ID_SIZE). Truncation can occur on platforms with long node
>>> names and multiple levels before the parent bus on whiich the dsa switch
>> s/whiich/which/
>>
>>
>>> sits such as on CN9130 [1].
>>>
>>> Test whether the return value of snprintf exceeds the maximum bus id
>>> length and print a warning.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> [    8.324631] mv88e6085 f212a200.mdio-mii:04: switch 0x1760 detected: Marvell 88E6176, revision 1
>>> [    8.389516] mv88e6085 f212a200.mdio-mii:04: Truncated bus-id may collide.
>>> [    8.592367] mv88e6085 f212a200.mdio-mii:04: Truncated bus-id may collide.
>>> [    8.623593] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/platform/cp0/cp0:config-space@f2000000/f212a200.mdio/mdio_bus/f212a200.mdio-mii/f212a200.mdio-mii:04/mdio_bus/!cp0!config-space@f2000000!mdio@12a200!ethernet-switch@4!mdi'
>>> [    8.785480] kobject: kobject_add_internal failed for !cp0!config-space@f2000000!mdio@12a200!ethernet-switch@4!mdi with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
>>> [    8.936514] libphy: mii_bus /cp0/config-space@f2000000/mdio@12a200/ethernet-switch@4/mdi failed to register
>>> [    8.946300] mdio_bus !cp0!config-space@f2000000!mdio@12a200!ethernet-switch@4!mdi: __mdiobus_register: -22
>>> [    8.956003] mv88e6085 f212a200.mdio-mii:04: Cannot register MDIO bus (-22)
>>> [    8.965329] mv88e6085: probe of f212a200.mdio-mii:04 failed with error -22
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Josua Mayer <josua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> This is not bug fix, assume you target net-next. Please:
>> 1) Next time, indicate that in the patch subject like this:
>>    [patch net-next] xxx
>> 2) net-next is currently closed, repost next week.
>Correct, thanks - will do.
>Just for future reference for those occasional contributors -
>is there such a thing as an lkml calendar?
>>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c | 6 ++++--
>>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
>>> index 614cabb5c1b0..1c40f7631ab1 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
>>> @@ -3731,10 +3731,12 @@ static int mv88e6xxx_mdio_register(struct mv88e6xxx_chip *chip,
>>>
>>> 	if (np) {
>>> 		bus->name = np->full_name;
>>> -		snprintf(bus->id, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE, "%pOF", np);
>>> +		if (snprintf(bus->id, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE, "%pOF", np) >= MII_BUS_ID_SIZE)
>>> +			dev_warn(chip->dev, "Truncated bus-id may collide.\n");
>> How about instead of warn&fail fallback to some different name in this
>> case?
>Duplicate could be avoided by truncating from the start,
>however I don't know if that is a good idea.
>It affects naming of paths in sysfs, and the root cause is
>difficult to spot.
>>> 	} else {
>>> 		bus->name = "mv88e6xxx SMI";
>>> -		snprintf(bus->id, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE, "mv88e6xxx-%d", index++);
>>> +		if (snprintf(bus->id, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE, "mv88e6xxx-%d", index++) >= MII_BUS_ID_SIZE)
>> How exactly this may happen?
>It can happen on switch nodes at deep levels in the device-tree,

Read again, my question is about the else branch.


>while describing both internal and external mdio buses of a switch.
>E.g. Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/marvell,mv88e6xxx.yaml
>
>On CN9130 platform device-tree looks like this:
>
>/ {
>    cp0 {
>        config-space@f2000000 {
>            mdio@12a200 {
>                ethernet-switch@4 {
>                    mdio { ... };
>                    mdio-external { ... };
>                };
>            };
>        };
>    };
>};
>
>For mdio-external child all the names alone, without separators,
>make up 66 characters, exceeding: MII_BUS_ID_SIZE:
>cp0config-space@f2000000mdio@12a200ethernet-switch@4mdio-external
>
>With separators ('!') we have:
>cp0!config-space@f2000000!mdio@12a200!ethernet-switch@4!mdio
>cp0!config-space@f2000000!mdio@12a200!ethernet-switch@4!mdio-external
>Truncated to MII_BUS_ID_SIZE:
>cp0!config-space@f2000000!mdio@12a200!ethernet-switch@4!mdi
>cp0!config-space@f2000000!mdio@12a200!ethernet-switch@4!mdi
>They become duplicates.
>
>>> +			dev_warn(chip->dev, "Truncated bus-id may collide.\n");
>Another option (imo) is to force the issue and return error code.
>Then the only way out would be increase of MII_BUS_ID_SIZE.
>>> 	}
>>>
>>> 	bus->read = mv88e6xxx_mdio_read;
>>>
>>> ---
>>> base-commit: e8f897f4afef0031fe618a8e94127a0934896aba
>>> change-id: 20240320-mv88e6xxx-truncate-busid-34a1d2769bbf
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> -- 
>>> Josua Mayer <josua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>