Re: [PATCH] net: phy: fix uninitalized WOL parameters in phy_ethtool_get_wol

From: Sebastian Hesselbarth
Date: Mon Mar 10 2014 - 05:50:21 EST


On 03/10/2014 02:51 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 02:01 +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
phy_ethtool_get_wol is a helper to get current WOL settings from
a phy device. When using this helper on a PHY without .get_wol
callback, struct ethtool_wolinfo is never set-up correctly and
may contain misleading information about WOL status.

To fix this, always zero relevant fields of struct ethtool_wolinfo
regardless of .get_wol callback availability.

I think it's the caller's responsibility to zero out struct
ethtool_wolinfo. That is what ethtool_get_wol() does.

Actually, phy_ethtool_get_wol is the caller here. This belongs to
a set of helpers that deal with phy_device, not netdev.

Maybe you could split ethtool_get_wol() like we did
ethtool_get_settings(), to support in-kernel invocation of ETHTOOL_GWOL?

Looking at the other users of phy_ethtool_get_wol (mv643xx_eth and
cpsw), both drivers use this helper to determine what to pass back
on the corresponding ethtool_get_wol call.

BTW, both drivers above do zero ethtool_wolinfo before calling
phy_ethtool_get_wol. I can either zero it in phy_suspend too or we
deal with it properly in phy_ethtool_get_wol instead:

void phy_ethtool_get_wol(struct phy_device *phydev, struct ethtool_wolinfo *wol)
{
memset(wol, 0, sizeof(*wol));

if (phydev && phydev->drv->get_wol)
phydev->drv->get_wol(phydev, wol);
}

That would also simplify above drivers down to e.g:

static void cpsw_get_wol(struct net_device *ndev, struct ethtool_wolinfo *wol)
{
struct cpsw_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
int slave_no = cpsw_slave_index(priv);
phy_ethtool_get_wol(priv->slaves[slave_no].phy, wol);
}

instead of:

static void cpsw_get_wol(struct net_device *ndev, struct ethtool_wolinfo *wol)
{
struct cpsw_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
int slave_no = cpsw_slave_index(priv);

wol->supported = 0;
wol->wolopts = 0;

if (priv->slaves[slave_no].phy)
phy_ethtool_get_wol(priv->slaves[slave_no].phy, wol);
}

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
index 19c9eca0ef26..62a7cd401e1c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -1092,6 +1092,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_ethtool_set_wol);

void phy_ethtool_get_wol(struct phy_device *phydev, struct ethtool_wolinfo *wol)
{
+ wol->supported = wol->wolopts = 0;
if (phydev->drv->get_wol)
phydev->drv->get_wol(phydev, wol);
}


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