From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.ten...@bootlin.com> [ Upstream commit aeeb2e8fdefdd5d257a1446351c70cb3df540199 ]
Phylink made an assumption about the carrier state being down when calling phylink_start(). If this assumption isn't satisfied, the internal phylink state could misbehave and a net device could end up not being functional. This patch fixes this by explicitly calling netif_carrier_off() in phylink_start(). Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.ten...@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org> --- drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c index e4a6ed88b9cf..9b8b9242fb61 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c @@ -747,6 +747,9 @@ void phylink_start(struct phylink *pl) phylink_an_mode_str(pl->link_an_mode), phy_modes(pl->link_config.interface)); + /* Always set the carrier off */ + netif_carrier_off(pl->netdev); + /* Apply the link configuration to the MAC when starting. This allows * a fixed-link to start with the correct parameters, and also * ensures that we set the appropriate advertisment for Serdes links. -- 2.17.1