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Commit 75bbf6e9 authored by Heiner Kallweit's avatar Heiner Kallweit Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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r8169: fix rare issue with broken rx after link-down on RTL8125



[ Upstream commit 621735f590643e3048ca2060c285b80551660601 ]

In very rare cases (I've seen two reports so far about different
RTL8125 chip versions) it seems the MAC locks up when link goes down
and requires a software reset to get revived.
Realtek doesn't publish hw errata information, therefore the root cause
is unknown. Realtek vendor drivers do a full hw re-initialization on
each link-up event, the slimmed-down variant here was reported to fix
the issue for the reporting user.
It's not fully clear which parts of the NIC are reset as part of the
software reset, therefore I can't rule out side effects.

Fixes: f1bce4ad ("r8169: add support for RTL8125")
Reported-by: default avatarMartin Kjær Jørgensen <me@lagy.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/97ec2232-3257-316c-c3e7-a08192ce16a6@gmail.com/T/


Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9edde757-9c3b-4730-be3b-0ef3a374ff71@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 282342bc
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