From: Christian Lamparter chunkeey@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 029497e66bdc762e001880e4c85a91f35a54b1e2 ]
Due to the inclusion of nvmem handling into the mac-address getter function of_get_mac_address() by commit d01f449c008a ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address") it is now possible to get a -EPROBE_DEFER return code. Which did cause bgmac to assign a random ethernet address.
This exact issue happened on my Meraki MR32. The nvmem provider is an EEPROM (at24c64) which gets instantiated once the module driver is loaded... This happens once the filesystem becomes available.
With this patch, bgmac_probe() will propagate the -EPROBE_DEFER error. Then the driver subsystem will reschedule the probe at a later time.
Cc: Petr Štetiar ynezz@true.cz Cc: Michael Walle michael@walle.cc Fixes: d01f449c008a ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address") Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter chunkeey@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c index 85fa0ab7201c..9513cfb5ba58 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ static int bgmac_probe(struct bcma_device *core) bcma_set_drvdata(core, bgmac);
err = of_get_mac_address(bgmac->dev->of_node, bgmac->net_dev->dev_addr); + if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER) + return err;
/* If no MAC address assigned via device tree, check SPROM */ if (err) {