Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: phy: marvell-88q2xxx: Prevent reading temperature with asserted reset

From: Stefan Eichenberger
Date: Wed Feb 19 2025 - 12:29:07 EST


Hi Dimitri,

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 11:54:58AM +0100, Dimitri Fedrau wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Am Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 07:29:49AM +0100 schrieb Stefan Eichenberger:
> > Hi Dimitri,
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 07:33:10PM +0100, Dimitri Fedrau wrote:
> > > If the PHYs reset is asserted it returns 0xffff for any read operation.
> > > Prevent reading the temperature in this case and return with an I/O error.
> > > Write operations are ignored by the device.
> > >
> > > Fixes: a197004cf3c2 ("net: phy: marvell-88q2xxx: Fix temperature measurement with reset-gpios")
> > > Signed-off-by: Dimitri Fedrau <dima.fedrau@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/net/phy/marvell-88q2xxx.c | 6 ++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/marvell-88q2xxx.c b/drivers/net/phy/marvell-88q2xxx.c
> > > index 30d71bfc365597d77c34c48f05390db9d63c4af4..c1ae27057ee34feacb31c2e3c40b2b1769596408 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/phy/marvell-88q2xxx.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/marvell-88q2xxx.c
> > > @@ -647,6 +647,12 @@ static int mv88q2xxx_hwmon_read(struct device *dev,
> > > struct phy_device *phydev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> > > int ret;
> > >
> > > + /* If the PHYs reset is asserted it returns 0xffff for any read
> > > + * operation. Return with an I/O error in this case.
> > > + */
> > > + if (phydev->mdio.reset_state == 1)
> > > + return -EIO;
> > > +
> > > switch (attr) {
> > > case hwmon_temp_input:
> > > ret = phy_read_mmd(phydev, MDIO_MMD_PCS,
> > >
> >
> > It makes sense to me. However, aren't most phys that allow reading
> > sensors over MDIO affected by this issue? I couldn't find anything
> > similar, are they ignoring that use-case?
> >
> Yes, you are right, but only if the PHYs hard reset is controlled with
> "reset-gpios" or similar. I didn't find anything about it too.

Okay, I see. Maybe at one point it can be generalized, but for now this
sounds good to me. Just address the inputs from Andrew.

Regards,
Stefan