[PATCH net 2/3] net/mlx5e: Fix setting RS FEC after remapping
From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Date: 2026-09-02 16:47:56
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: Shahar Shitrit <redacted>
When a user sets a FEC mode via ethtool, the driver maps the ethtool
FEC type to the lowest mlx5 bit of that type. For RS FEC, this is
MLX5E_FEC_RS_528_514 (bit 2). The driver then checks whether this
bit is supported by at least one link mode by inspecting the
fec_override_cap fields via mlx5e_fec_in_caps(), and returns
-EOPNOTSUPP if not.
This check is incorrect. RS FEC has three supported hardware variants:
RS_528_514 (bit 2), RS_544_514_INTERLEAVED_QUAD (bit 4), and
RS_544_514 (bit 7). mlx5e_remap_fec_conf_mode() already remaps bit 2
to the appropriate RS variant per link mode when writing the admin
fields, but the early capability check is done against the raw
unmapped bit. As a result, a device that supports RS_544_514 or
RS_544_514_INTERLEAVED_QUAD but not RS_528_514 will incorrectly reject
the user's RS FEC request.
Remove the early support check from mlx5e_set_fec_mode() and fold
it into the existing write loop, checking caps against the remapped
policy per link mode. Return -EOPNOTSUPP before the final register
write if no link mode accepted the policy.
Fixes: 2608a2f831c4 ("net/mlx5e: Fix return status when setting unsupported FEC mode")
Signed-off-by: Shahar Shitrit <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Yael Chemla <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/port.c | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/port.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/port.c
index 6049ccf475bc..a4c096a4fed2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/port.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/port.c@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ int mlx5e_set_fec_mode(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u16 fec_policy) u32 in[MLX5_ST_SZ_DW(pplm_reg)] = {}; int sz = MLX5_ST_SZ_BYTES(pplm_reg); u16 fec_policy_auto = 0; + bool fec_set = false; int err; int i;
@@ -569,9 +570,6 @@ int mlx5e_set_fec_mode(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u16 fec_policy) if (fec_policy >= (1 << MLX5E_FEC_LLRS_272_257_1) && !fec_50g_per_lane) return -EOPNOTSUPP; - if (fec_policy && !mlx5e_fec_in_caps(dev, fec_policy)) - return -EOPNOTSUPP; - MLX5_SET(pplm_reg, in, local_port, 1); err = mlx5_core_access_reg(dev, in, sz, out, sz, MLX5_REG_PPLM, 0, 0); if (err)
@@ -591,12 +589,17 @@ int mlx5e_set_fec_mode(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u16 fec_policy) mlx5e_get_fec_cap_field(out, &fec_caps, i); /* policy supported for link speed */ - if (fec_caps & conf_fec) + if (fec_caps & conf_fec) { mlx5e_fec_admin_field(out, &conf_fec, 1, i); - else - /* set FEC to auto*/ + fec_set = true; + } else { + /* set FEC to auto */ mlx5e_fec_admin_field(out, &fec_policy_auto, 1, i); + } } + if (fec_policy && !fec_set) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + return mlx5_core_access_reg(dev, out, sz, out, sz, MLX5_REG_PPLM, 0, 1); }
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2.44.0