kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c, branch linux-7.0.y

broadcom: b44: prevent uninitialized value usage

2025-12-10T09:02:20+00:00

On execution path with raised B44_FLAG_EXTERNAL_PHY, b44_readphy() leaves bmcr value uninitialized and it is used later in the code. Add check of this flag at the beginning of the b44_nway_reset() and exit early of the function with restarting autonegotiation if an external PHY is used. Fixes: 753f492093da ("[B44]: port to native ssb support") Reviewed-by: Jonas Gorski Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Signed-off-by: Alexey Simakov Reviewed-by: Michael Chan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205155815.4348-1-bigalex934@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: b44: register a fixed phy using fixed_phy_register_100fd if needed

2025-11-05T02:46:13+00:00

In case of bcm47xx a fixed phy is used, which so far is created by platform code, using fixed_phy_add(). This function has a number of problems, therefore create a potentially needed fixed phy here, using fixed_phy_register_100fd. Due to lack of hardware, this is compile-tested only. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/53e4e74d-a49e-4f37-b970-5543a35041db@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Fix typos

2025-07-25T17:29:07+00:00

Fix typos in comments and error messages. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas Reviewed-by: David Arinzon Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250723201528.2908218-1-helgaas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00

timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree over and remove the historical wrapper inlines. Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

net: annotate writes on dev->mtu from ndo_change_mtu()

2024-05-07T23:19:14+00:00

Simon reported that ndo_change_mtu() methods were never updated to use WRITE_ONCE(dev->mtu, new_mtu) as hinted in commit 501a90c94510 ("inet: protect against too small mtu values.") We read dev->mtu without holding RTNL in many places, with READ_ONCE() annotations. It is time to take care of ndo_change_mtu() methods to use corresponding WRITE_ONCE() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Simon Horman Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240505144608.GB67882@kernel.org/ Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Acked-by: Shannon Nelson Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506102812.3025432-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: b44: set pause params only when interface is up

2024-04-25T15:34:18+00:00

b44_free_rings() accesses b44::rx_buffers (and ::tx_buffers) unconditionally, but b44::rx_buffers is only valid when the device is up (they get allocated in b44_open(), and deallocated again in b44_close()), any other time these are just a NULL pointers. So if you try to change the pause params while the network interface is disabled/administratively down, everything explodes (which likely netifd tries to do). Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/13789 Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 (Linux-2.6.12-rc2) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Peter Münster Suggested-by: Jonas Gorski Signed-off-by: Vaclav Svoboda Tested-by: Peter Münster Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Signed-off-by: Peter Münster Reviewed-by: Michael Chan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87y192oolj.fsf@a16n.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

broadcom: b44: Use b44_writephy() return value

2023-08-16T06:08:29+00:00

Return result of b44_writephy() instead of zero to deal with possible error. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Signed-off-by: Artem Chernyshev Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: b44: Remove the unused function __b44_cam_read()

2023-01-31T05:03:51+00:00

The function __b44_cam_read() is defined in the b44.c file, but not called elsewhere, so remove this unused function. drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c:199:20: warning: unused function '__b44_cam_read'. Reported-by: Abaci Robot Link: https://bugzilla.openanolis.cn/show_bug.cgi?id=3858 Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230128090413.79824-1-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Remove the obsolte u64_stats_fetch_*_irq() users (drivers).

2022-10-29T03:13:54+00:00

Now that the 32bit UP oddity is gone and 32bit uses always a sequence count, there is no need for the fetch_irq() variants anymore. Convert to the regular interface. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski