[PATCH 6.18 217/333] ice: fix retry for AQ command 0x06EE

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-17T17:23:00Z

From: Jakub Staniszewski <jakub.staniszewski@linux.intel.com>

commit fb4903b3354aed4a2301180cf991226f896c87ed upstream.

Executing ethtool -m can fail reporting a netlink I/O error while firmware
link management holds the i2c bus used to communicate with the module.

According to Intel(R) Ethernet Controller E810 Datasheet Rev 2.8 [1]
Section 3.3.10.4 Read/Write SFF EEPROM (0x06EE)
request should to be retried upon receiving EBUSY from firmware.

Commit e9c9692c8a81 ("ice: Reimplement module reads used by ethtool")
implemented it only for part of ice_get_module_eeprom(), leaving all other
calls to ice_aq_sff_eeprom() vulnerable to returning early on getting
EBUSY without retrying.

Remove the retry loop from ice_get_module_eeprom() and add Admin Queue
(AQ) command with opcode 0x06EE to the list of commands that should be
retried on receiving EBUSY from firmware.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e9c9692c8a81 ("ice: Reimplement module reads used by ethtool")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Staniszewski <jakub.staniszewski@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Dawid Osuchowski <dawid.osuchowski@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dawid Osuchowski <dawid.osuchowski@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Link: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/613875/intel-ethernet-controller-e810-datasheet.html [1]
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Tested-by: Rinitha S <sx.rinitha@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c | 1
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c | 35 ++++++++++-----------------
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
@@ -1854,6 +1854,7 @@ static bool ice_should_retry_sq_send_cmd
case ice_aqc_opc_lldp_stop:
case ice_aqc_opc_lldp_start:
case ice_aqc_opc_lldp_filter_ctrl:
+ case ice_aqc_opc_sff_eeprom:
return true;
}

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
@@ -4495,7 +4495,7 @@ ice_get_module_eeprom(struct net_device
struct ice_pf *pf = vsi->back;
struct ice_hw *hw = &pf->hw;
bool is_sfp = false;
- unsigned int i, j;
+ unsigned int i;
u16 offset = 0;
u8 page = 0;
int status;
@@ -4537,26 +4537,19 @@ ice_get_module_eeprom(struct net_device
if (page == 0 || !(data[0x2] & 0x4)) {
u32 copy_len;

- /* If i2c bus is busy due to slow page change or
- * link management access, call can fail. This is normal.
- * So we retry this a few times.
- */
- for (j = 0; j < 4; j++) {
- status = ice_aq_sff_eeprom(hw, 0, addr, offset, page,
- !is_sfp, value,
- SFF_READ_BLOCK_SIZE,
- 0, NULL);
- netdev_dbg(netdev, "SFF %02X %02X %02X %X = %02X%02X%02X%02X.%02X%02X%02X%02X (%X)\n",
- addr, offset, page, is_sfp,
- value[0], value[1], value[2], value[3],
- value[4], value[5], value[6], value[7],
- status);
- if (status) {
- usleep_range(1500, 2500);
- memset(value, 0, SFF_READ_BLOCK_SIZE);
- continue;
- }
- break;
+ status = ice_aq_sff_eeprom(hw, 0, addr, offset, page,
+ !is_sfp, value,
+ SFF_READ_BLOCK_SIZE,
+ 0, NULL);
+ netdev_dbg(netdev, "SFF %02X %02X %02X %X = %02X%02X%02X%02X.%02X%02X%02X%02X (%pe)\n",
+ addr, offset, page, is_sfp,
+ value[0], value[1], value[2], value[3],
+ value[4], value[5], value[6], value[7],
+ ERR_PTR(status));
+ if (status) {
+ netdev_err(netdev, "%s: error reading module EEPROM: status %pe\n",
+ __func__, ERR_PTR(status));
+ return status;
}

/* Make sure we have enough room for the new block */