[PATCH net 2/3] net/mlx5: Avoid "No data available" when FW version queries fail
From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Date: 2026-03-30 19:41:35
Also in:
linux-rdma, lkml
Subsystem:
mellanox mlx5 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Saeed Mahameed, Leon Romanovsky, Tariq Toukan, Mark Bloch, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Avoid printing the misleading "kernel answers: No data available" devlink
output when querying firmware or pending firmware version fails
(e.g. MLX5 fw state errors / flash failures).
FW can fail on loading the pending flash image and get its version due
to various reasons, examples:
mlxfw: Firmware flash failed: key not applicable, err (7)
mlx5_fw_image_pending: can't read pending fw version while fw state is 1
and the resulting:
$ devlink dev info
kernel answers: No data available
Instead, just report 0 or 0xfff.. versions in case of failure to indicate
a problem, and let other information be shown.
after the fix:
$ devlink dev info
pci/0000:00:06.0:
driver mlx5_core
serial_number xxx...
board.serial_number MT2225300179
versions:
fixed:
fw.psid MT_0000000436
running:
fw.version 22.41.0188
fw 22.41.0188
stored:
fw.version 255.255.65535
fw 255.255.65535
Fixes: 9c86b07e3069 ("net/mlx5: Added fw version query command")
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/devlink.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fw.c | 53 ++++++++++++-------
.../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.h | 4 +-
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/devlink.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/devlink.c
index 6698ac55a4bf..73cf0321bb86 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/devlink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/devlink.c@@ -107,9 +107,7 @@ mlx5_devlink_info_get(struct devlink *devlink, struct devlink_info_req *req, if (err) return err; - err = mlx5_fw_version_query(dev, &running_fw, &stored_fw); - if (err) - return err; + mlx5_fw_version_query(dev, &running_fw, &stored_fw); snprintf(version_str, sizeof(version_str), "%d.%d.%04d", mlx5_fw_ver_major(running_fw), mlx5_fw_ver_minor(running_fw),
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fw.c
index eeb4437975f2..c1f220e5fe18 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fw.c@@ -822,48 +822,63 @@ mlx5_fw_image_pending(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, return 0; } -int mlx5_fw_version_query(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, - u32 *running_ver, u32 *pending_ver) +void mlx5_fw_version_query(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, + u32 *running_ver, u32 *pending_ver) { u32 reg_mcqi_version[MLX5_ST_SZ_DW(mcqi_version)] = {}; bool pending_version_exists; int component_index; int err; + *running_ver = 0; + *pending_ver = 0; + if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev, mcam_reg) || !MLX5_CAP_MCAM_REG(dev, mcqi) || !MLX5_CAP_MCAM_REG(dev, mcqs)) { mlx5_core_warn(dev, "fw query isn't supported by the FW\n"); - return -EOPNOTSUPP; + return; } component_index = mlx5_get_boot_img_component_index(dev); - if (component_index < 0) - return component_index; + if (component_index < 0) { + mlx5_core_warn(dev, "fw query failed to find boot img component index, err %d\n", + component_index); + return; + } + *running_ver = U32_MAX; /* indicate failure */ err = mlx5_reg_mcqi_version_query(dev, component_index, MCQI_FW_RUNNING_VERSION, reg_mcqi_version); - if (err) - return err; - - *running_ver = MLX5_GET(mcqi_version, reg_mcqi_version, version); - + if (!err) + *running_ver = MLX5_GET(mcqi_version, reg_mcqi_version, + version); + else + mlx5_core_warn(dev, "failed to query running version, err %d\n", + err); + + *pending_ver = U32_MAX; /* indicate failure */ err = mlx5_fw_image_pending(dev, component_index, &pending_version_exists); - if (err) - return err; + if (err) { + mlx5_core_warn(dev, "failed to query pending image, err %d\n", + err); + return; + } if (!pending_version_exists) { *pending_ver = 0; - return 0; + return; } err = mlx5_reg_mcqi_version_query(dev, component_index, MCQI_FW_STORED_VERSION, reg_mcqi_version); - if (err) - return err; - - *pending_ver = MLX5_GET(mcqi_version, reg_mcqi_version, version); - - return 0; + if (!err) + *pending_ver = MLX5_GET(mcqi_version, reg_mcqi_version, + version); + else + mlx5_core_warn(dev, "failed to query pending version, err %d\n", + err); + + return; }
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.h
index b635b423d972..1507e881d962 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.h@@ -393,8 +393,8 @@ int mlx5_port_max_linkspeed(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev, u32 *speed); int mlx5_firmware_flash(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, const struct firmware *fw, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack); -int mlx5_fw_version_query(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, - u32 *running_ver, u32 *stored_ver); +void mlx5_fw_version_query(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u32 *running_ver, + u32 *stored_ver); #ifdef CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN int mlx5e_init(void);
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