From: Mohamad Heib <moham...@mellanox.com> [ Upstream commit 5faf5b70c51dd9c9905bf8209e33cbd867486607 ]
Setting speed to 56GBASE is allowed only with auto-negotiation enabled. This patch prevent setting speed to 56GBASE when auto-negotiation disabled. Fixes: f62b8bb8f2d3 ("net/mlx5: Extend mlx5_core to support ConnectX-4 Ethernet functionality") Signed-off-by: Mohamad Heib <moham...@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <sae...@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c index 22d5101769651..06f9bd6a45e33 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c @@ -1060,6 +1060,14 @@ int mlx5e_ethtool_set_link_ksettings(struct mlx5e_priv *priv, link_modes = autoneg == AUTONEG_ENABLE ? ethtool2ptys_adver_func(adver) : mlx5e_port_speed2linkmodes(mdev, speed, !ext); + if ((link_modes & MLX5E_PROT_MASK(MLX5E_56GBASE_R4)) && + autoneg != AUTONEG_ENABLE) { + netdev_err(priv->netdev, "%s: 56G link speed requires autoneg enabled\n", + __func__); + err = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } + link_modes = link_modes & eproto.cap; if (!link_modes) { netdev_err(priv->netdev, "%s: Not supported link mode(s) requested", -- 2.20.1