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From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
	Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>,
	Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>,
	Shay Agroskin <shayag@mellanox.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
	Jianbo Liu <jianbol@nvidia.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>, Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 2/3] net/mlx5: Avoid "No data available" when FW version queries fail
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:40:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260330194015.53585-3-tariqt@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260330194015.53585-1-tariqt@nvidia.com>

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 <moshe@nvidia.com>
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);
-- 
2.44.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-30 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-30 19:40 [PATCH net 0/3] mlx5 misc fixes 2026-03-30 Tariq Toukan
2026-03-30 19:40 ` [PATCH net 1/3] net/mlx5: lag: Check for LAG device before creating debugfs Tariq Toukan
2026-03-30 19:40 ` Tariq Toukan [this message]
2026-03-30 19:40 ` [PATCH net 3/3] net/mlx5: Fix switchdev mode rollback in case of failure Tariq Toukan
2026-04-02  3:20 ` [PATCH net 0/3] mlx5 misc fixes 2026-03-30 patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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