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| author |   Ivan Delalande <colona@arista.com> | 2026-09-18 15:47:15 -0700 |
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| committer |   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-09-23 19:01:15 -0700 |
| commit | 4eb3f195ef08c5acaed87958297e41cc49588dde (patch) | |
| tree | f99a4c9ff4f0891738df6cd2fb24a0e8f2858e2a | |
| parent | net: arp: terminate device name before lookup (diff) | |
tg3: use random MAC address when tg3_get_device_address fails
Some of the tg3 NICs we use (BCM57762) reset the SRAM MAC address to the
placeholder address on link flaps, tg3_chip_reset, etc. We've typically
fixed it from userspace, but since e4c00ba7274b ("tg3: replace
placeholder MAC address with device property") was merged, tg3 just
fails probe as we don't have a way to get it through the generic
device_get_mac_address infrastructure as fallback on our systems.
Make the driver assign a random address in this condition instead of
being fatal for probe. Set deferred_probe_reason through dev_warn_probe
if the address isn't yet available from the provider.
Fixes: e4c00ba7274b ("tg3: replace placeholder MAC address with device property")
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260909191751.651aa5c4@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Ivan Delalande <colona@arista.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260918224715.GA654128@visor
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c index caa7a6caa6e2..8b6806a79edf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c @@ -17915,11 +17915,14 @@ static int tg3_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, err = tg3_get_device_address(tp, addr); if (err) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, - "Could not obtain valid ethernet address, aborting\n"); - goto err_out_apeunmap; + dev_warn_probe(&pdev->dev, err, + "Could not obtain a valid ethernet address\n"); + if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER) + goto err_out_apeunmap; + eth_hw_addr_random(dev); + } else { + eth_hw_addr_set(dev, addr); } - eth_hw_addr_set(dev, addr); intmbx = MAILBOX_INTERRUPT_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW; rcvmbx = MAILBOX_RCVRET_CON_IDX_0 + TG3_64BIT_REG_LOW; |