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net: mdio: aspeed: add dummy read to avoid read-after-write issue
authorJacky Chou <jacky_chou@aspeedtech.com>
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:24:58 +0000 (14:24 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2026 09:14:32 +0000 (10:14 +0100)
commit72bc82bd1cdb6c863a32842fff51b3a1c084f256
tree822dab6eb477a6ea234fd27f156789ac9dabc6da
parent1e54c19eaf84ba652c4e376571093e58e144b339
net: mdio: aspeed: add dummy read to avoid read-after-write issue

[ Upstream commit d1a1a4bade4b20c0858d0b2f81d2611de055f675 ]

The Aspeed MDIO controller may return incorrect data when a read operation
follows immediately after a write. Due to a controller bug, the subsequent
read can latch stale data, causing the polling logic to terminate earlier
than expected.

To work around this hardware issue, insert a dummy read after each write
operation. This ensures that the next actual read returns the correct
data and prevents premature polling exit.

This workaround has been verified to stabilize MDIO transactions on
affected Aspeed platforms.

Fixes: f160e99462c6 ("net: phy: Add mdio-aspeed")
Signed-off-by: Jacky Chou <jacky_chou@aspeedtech.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211-aspeed_mdio_add_dummy_read-v3-1-382868869004@aspeedtech.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/mdio/mdio-aspeed.c