[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: dsa: bcm_sf2: properly propagate carrier down state for MoCA" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: dsa: bcm_sf2: properly propagate carrier down state for MoCA

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.y-ckt4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 580ffde7eb2e674bf10a3359ffa6eb84b5abd07f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 12:38:01 -0700
Subject: net: dsa: bcm_sf2: properly propagate carrier down state for MoCA

commit 4ab7f9138147efbb3efab32a51a8da646769d740 upstream.

MoCA interfaces require the use of an user-space daemon (mocad) which
will typically use cmd->autoneg to force the link. This is causing other
network manager applications not to get proper carrier down
notifications because of the following sequence of events:

- link down interrupt is received, link is set to 0 by the interrupt
  handler
- fixed_link update callback runs and updates the BMSR register
  accordingly
- PHY library polls the PHY for link status, sees the link is down,
  proceeds with reporting that
- mocad gets notified of the link state and call phy_ethtool_sset()
  with cmd->autoneg set to the link status (0)
- phy_start_aneg() is called at the end of phy_ethtool_sset() and sets
  the PHY state to PHY_FORCING

Just make sure we notify the interface carrier appropriately when we
detect that the link is down in our fixed_link update callback. This is
made local to the bcm_sf2 driver as the PHY library does the right thing
in any case. This is similar to the GENET change introduced in
54d7c01d3ed699cfc213115eaecfe1175cfaff8f ("net: bcmgenet: enable MoCA
link state change detection").

Fixes: 246d7f773c13 ("net: dsa: add Broadcom SF2 switch driver")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c b/drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c
index feb29c4..784b5aa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c
@@ -706,6 +706,13 @@ static void bcm_sf2_sw_fixed_link_update(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port,
 	 */
 	if (port == 7) {
 		status->link = priv->port_sts[port].link;
+		/* For MoCA interfaces, also force a link down notification
+		 * since some version of the user-space daemon (mocad) use
+		 * cmd->autoneg to force the link, which messes up the PHY
+		 * state machine and make it go in PHY_FORCING state instead.
+		 */
+		if (!status->link)
+			netif_carrier_off(ds->ports[port]);
 		status->duplex = 1;
 	} else {
 		status->link = 1;
--
1.9.1