[PATCH net 3/4] ice: acquire NVM lock around each flash read
From: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Date: 2026-08-12 00:09:30
Subsystem:
intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Robert Malz <redacted>
FW caps the NVM read lock at a maximum of 3000ms regardless of the timeout
requested via ice_acquire_nvm(). ice_read_flat_nvm() splits a read into
multiple ice_aq_read_nvm() commands, one per 4KB sector, all issued under a
single lock taken by the caller. Reading a large region can exceed 3000ms,
so FW reclaims the lock mid-read and the remaining commands might fail.
Move the lock acquire/release into ice_read_flat_nvm() so it brackets each
individual ice_aq_read_nvm() command, ensuring the lock is never held
across more than one FW read.
ice_release_nvm() issues its own AQ command and overwrites
hw->adminq.sq_last_status, which some callers inspect after a failed read.
Add an optional read_aq_err output parameter to ice_read_flat_nvm() to
capture the failing read's AQ error before the release; callers that need
it (ice_discover_flash_size() and the ethtool/devlink log paths) use it
instead of sq_last_status, others pass NULL.
Callers that previously took the lock around ice_read_flat_nvm(),
ice_read_sr_word() or ice_read_flash_module() now call them without it.
The now-redundant per-block locking in ice_devlink_nvm_snapshot() is
dropped. ice_read_sr_word() is now a thin wrapper, so ice_read_sr_word_aq()
is folded into it.
Fixes: e94509906d6b ("ice: create function to read a section of the NVM and Shadow RAM")
Signed-off-by: Robert Malz <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcin Szycik <redacted>
Tested-by: Rinitha S <redacted> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
---
[TN] Note: The 'last_command' argument of ice_aq_read_nvm() is ignored by
firmware; public documentation has not updated to reflect this yet.
.../net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/devlink.c | 32 ++-----
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c | 16 +---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c | 90 ++++++++++---------
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.h | 2 +-
4 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/devlink.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/devlink.c
index 22b7d8e6bd9e..8c2b63eef82b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/devlink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/devlink.c@@ -1890,27 +1890,18 @@ static int ice_devlink_nvm_snapshot(struct devlink *devlink, */ for (i = 0; i < num_blks; i++) { u32 read_sz = min_t(u32, ICE_DEVLINK_READ_BLK_SIZE, left); - - status = ice_acquire_nvm(hw, ICE_RES_READ); - if (status) { - dev_dbg(dev, "ice_acquire_nvm failed, err %d aq_err %d\n", - status, hw->adminq.sq_last_status); - NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Failed to acquire NVM semaphore"); - vfree(nvm_data); - return -EIO; - } + enum libie_aq_err read_aq_err = LIBIE_AQ_RC_OK; status = ice_read_flat_nvm(hw, i * ICE_DEVLINK_READ_BLK_SIZE, - &read_sz, tmp, read_shadow_ram); + &read_sz, tmp, read_shadow_ram, + &read_aq_err); if (status) { dev_dbg(dev, "ice_read_flat_nvm failed after reading %u bytes, err %d aq_err %d\n", - read_sz, status, hw->adminq.sq_last_status); + read_sz, status, read_aq_err); NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Failed to read NVM contents"); - ice_release_nvm(hw); vfree(nvm_data); return -EIO; } - ice_release_nvm(hw); tmp += read_sz; left -= read_sz;
@@ -1943,6 +1934,7 @@ static int ice_devlink_nvm_read(struct devlink *devlink, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, u64 offset, u32 size, u8 *data) { + enum libie_aq_err read_aq_err = LIBIE_AQ_RC_OK; struct ice_pf *pf = devlink_priv(devlink); struct device *dev = ice_pf_to_dev(pf); struct ice_hw *hw = &pf->hw;
@@ -1966,24 +1958,14 @@ static int ice_devlink_nvm_read(struct devlink *devlink, return -ERANGE; } - status = ice_acquire_nvm(hw, ICE_RES_READ); - if (status) { - dev_dbg(dev, "ice_acquire_nvm failed, err %d aq_err %d\n", - status, hw->adminq.sq_last_status); - NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Failed to acquire NVM semaphore"); - return -EIO; - } - status = ice_read_flat_nvm(hw, (u32)offset, &size, data, - read_shadow_ram); + read_shadow_ram, &read_aq_err); if (status) { dev_dbg(dev, "ice_read_flat_nvm failed after reading %u bytes, err %d aq_err %d\n", - size, status, hw->adminq.sq_last_status); + size, status, read_aq_err); NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Failed to read NVM contents"); - ice_release_nvm(hw); return -EIO; } - ice_release_nvm(hw); return 0; }
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
index 7eb380be7ed2..bf9a821c543b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c@@ -853,6 +853,7 @@ static int ice_get_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev, struct ethtool_eeprom *eeprom, u8 *bytes) { + enum libie_aq_err read_aq_err = LIBIE_AQ_RC_OK; struct ice_pf *pf = ice_netdev_to_pf(netdev); struct ice_hw *hw = &pf->hw; struct device *dev;
@@ -869,24 +870,15 @@ ice_get_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev, struct ethtool_eeprom *eeprom, if (!buf) return -ENOMEM; - ret = ice_acquire_nvm(hw, ICE_RES_READ); - if (ret) { - dev_err(dev, "ice_acquire_nvm failed, err %d aq_err %s\n", - ret, libie_aq_str(hw->adminq.sq_last_status)); - goto out; - } - ret = ice_read_flat_nvm(hw, eeprom->offset, &eeprom->len, buf, - false); + false, &read_aq_err); if (ret) { dev_err(dev, "ice_read_flat_nvm failed, err %d aq_err %s\n", - ret, libie_aq_str(hw->adminq.sq_last_status)); - goto release; + ret, libie_aq_str(read_aq_err)); + goto out; } memcpy(bytes, buf, eeprom->len); -release: - ice_release_nvm(hw); out: kfree(buf); return ret;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c
index 7e187a804dfa..21f3b615dbbf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c@@ -53,17 +53,27 @@ int ice_aq_read_nvm(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 module_typeid, u32 offset, * @length: (in) number of bytes to read; (out) number of bytes actually read * @data: buffer to return data in (sized to fit the specified length) * @read_shadow_ram: if true, read from shadow RAM instead of NVM + * @read_aq_err: if non-NULL, receives the AQ error status of the failing read * * Reads a portion of the NVM, as a flat memory space. This function correctly * breaks read requests across Shadow RAM sectors and ensures that no single * read request exceeds the maximum 4KB read for a single AdminQ command. * + * FW caps the read lock at a maximum of 3000ms, so a read spanning multiple + * 4KB sectors cannot be done under a single lock without FW reclaiming it + * mid-read. The NVM lock is therefore acquired and released around each AQ + * read, so this function must be called without the lock held. + * + * Since ice_release_nvm() issues an AQ command that overwrites + * hw->adminq.sq_last_status, callers that need the failing read's AQ error + * must use @read_aq_err rather than inspecting sq_last_status afterwards. + * * Returns a status code on failure. Note that the data pointer may be * partially updated if some reads succeed before a failure. */ int ice_read_flat_nvm(struct ice_hw *hw, u32 offset, u32 *length, u8 *data, - bool read_shadow_ram) + bool read_shadow_ram, enum libie_aq_err *read_aq_err) { u32 inlen = *length; u32 bytes_read = 0;
@@ -92,12 +102,30 @@ ice_read_flat_nvm(struct ice_hw *hw, u32 offset, u32 *length, u8 *data, last_cmd = !(bytes_read + read_size < inlen); + status = ice_acquire_nvm(hw, ICE_RES_READ); + if (status) { + ice_debug(hw, ICE_DBG_NVM, "Failed to acquire NVM lock, err %d aq_err %s\n", + status, libie_aq_str(hw->adminq.sq_last_status)); + break; + } + status = ice_aq_read_nvm(hw, ICE_AQC_NVM_START_POINT, offset, read_size, data + bytes_read, last_cmd, read_shadow_ram, NULL); - if (status) + if (status) { + /* Capture the read's AQ error before ice_release_nvm() + * issues its own AQ command and overwrites + * sq_last_status. + */ + if (read_aq_err) + *read_aq_err = hw->adminq.sq_last_status; + + ice_release_nvm(hw); break; + } + + ice_release_nvm(hw); bytes_read += read_size; offset += read_size;
@@ -177,14 +205,19 @@ int ice_aq_erase_nvm(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 module_typeid, struct ice_sq_cd *cd) } /** - * ice_read_sr_word_aq - Reads Shadow RAM via AQ + * ice_read_sr_word - Reads Shadow RAM word * @hw: pointer to the HW structure * @offset: offset of the Shadow RAM word to read (0x000000 - 0x001FFF) * @data: word read from the Shadow RAM * * Reads one 16 bit word from the Shadow RAM using ice_read_flat_nvm. + * + * The NVM lock is acquired and released internally by ice_read_flat_nvm() + * around the FW read, so this function must be called without the lock held. + * + * Return: zero on success, or a negative error code on failure. */ -static int ice_read_sr_word_aq(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 offset, u16 *data) +int ice_read_sr_word(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 offset, u16 *data) { u32 bytes = sizeof(u16); __le16 data_local;
@@ -194,7 +227,7 @@ static int ice_read_sr_word_aq(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 offset, u16 *data) * Shadow RAM sector restrictions necessary when reading from the NVM. */ status = ice_read_flat_nvm(hw, offset * sizeof(u16), &bytes, - (__force u8 *)&data_local, true); + (__force u8 *)&data_local, true, NULL); if (status) return status;
@@ -330,13 +363,8 @@ ice_read_flash_module(struct ice_hw *hw, enum ice_bank_select bank, u16 module, return -EINVAL; } - status = ice_acquire_nvm(hw, ICE_RES_READ); - if (status) - return status; - - status = ice_read_flat_nvm(hw, start + offset, &length, data, false); - - ice_release_nvm(hw); + status = ice_read_flat_nvm(hw, start + offset, &length, data, false, + NULL); return status; }
@@ -418,27 +446,6 @@ ice_read_netlist_module(struct ice_hw *hw, enum ice_bank_select bank, u32 offset return status; } -/** - * ice_read_sr_word - Reads Shadow RAM word and acquire NVM if necessary - * @hw: pointer to the HW structure - * @offset: offset of the Shadow RAM word to read (0x000000 - 0x001FFF) - * @data: word read from the Shadow RAM - * - * Reads one 16 bit word from the Shadow RAM using the ice_read_sr_word_aq. - */ -int ice_read_sr_word(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 offset, u16 *data) -{ - int status; - - status = ice_acquire_nvm(hw, ICE_RES_READ); - if (!status) { - status = ice_read_sr_word_aq(hw, offset, data); - ice_release_nvm(hw); - } - - return status; -} - /** * ice_get_pfa_module_tlv - Reads sub module TLV from NVM PFA * @hw: pointer to hardware structure
@@ -856,20 +863,18 @@ int ice_get_inactive_netlist_ver(struct ice_hw *hw, struct ice_netlist_info *net static int ice_discover_flash_size(struct ice_hw *hw) { u32 min_size = 0, max_size = ICE_AQC_NVM_MAX_OFFSET + 1; - int status; - - status = ice_acquire_nvm(hw, ICE_RES_READ); - if (status) - return status; + int status = 0; while ((max_size - min_size) > 1) { + enum libie_aq_err read_aq_err = LIBIE_AQ_RC_OK; u32 offset = (max_size + min_size) / 2; u32 len = 1; u8 data; - status = ice_read_flat_nvm(hw, offset, &len, &data, false); + status = ice_read_flat_nvm(hw, offset, &len, &data, false, + &read_aq_err); if (status == -EIO && - hw->adminq.sq_last_status == LIBIE_AQ_RC_EINVAL) { + read_aq_err == LIBIE_AQ_RC_EINVAL) { ice_debug(hw, ICE_DBG_NVM, "%s: New upper bound of %u bytes\n", __func__, offset); status = 0;
@@ -880,7 +885,7 @@ static int ice_discover_flash_size(struct ice_hw *hw) min_size = offset; } else { /* an unexpected error occurred */ - goto err_read_flat_nvm; + return status; } }
@@ -888,9 +893,6 @@ static int ice_discover_flash_size(struct ice_hw *hw) hw->flash.flash_size = max_size; -err_read_flat_nvm: - ice_release_nvm(hw); - return status; }
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.h
index 63cdc6bdac58..e1d1a11f5ca4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.h@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ int ice_aq_read_nvm(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 module_typeid, u32 offset, bool read_shadow_ram, struct ice_sq_cd *cd); int ice_read_flat_nvm(struct ice_hw *hw, u32 offset, u32 *length, u8 *data, - bool read_shadow_ram); + bool read_shadow_ram, enum libie_aq_err *read_aq_err); int ice_get_pfa_module_tlv(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 *module_tlv, u16 *module_tlv_len, u16 module_type);
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2.47.1