From: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
To: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: conor@kernel.org, Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara@microchip.com>,
Valentina.FernandezAlanis@microchip.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] firmware: microchip: fail auto-update probe if no flash found
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 11:24:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260303-emphatic-roundness-8fe5cd8c3159@spud> (raw)
From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
There's no point letting the driver probe if there is no flash, as
trying to do a firmware upload will fail. Move the code that attempts
to get the flash from firmware upload to probe, and let it emit a
message to users stating why auto-update is not supported.
The code currently could have a problem if there's a flash in
devicetree, but the system controller driver fails to get a pointer to
it from the mtd subsystem, which will cause
mpfs_sys_controller_get_flash() to return an error. Check for errors and
null, instead of just null, in the new clause.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ec5b0f1193ad4 ("firmware: microchip: add PolarFire SoC Auto Update support")
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
---
CC: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
CC: Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara@microchip.com>
CC: Valentina.FernandezAlanis@microchip.com
CC: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c b/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c
index 46b19d803446e..05ac82f1498b3 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c
@@ -113,10 +113,6 @@ static enum fw_upload_err mpfs_auto_update_prepare(struct fw_upload *fw_uploader
* be added here.
*/
- priv->flash = mpfs_sys_controller_get_flash(priv->sys_controller);
- if (!priv->flash)
- return FW_UPLOAD_ERR_HW_ERROR;
-
erase_size = round_up(erase_size, (u64)priv->flash->erasesize);
/*
@@ -427,6 +423,11 @@ static int mpfs_auto_update_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(priv->sys_controller),
"Could not register as a sub device of the system controller\n");
+ priv->flash = mpfs_sys_controller_get_flash(priv->sys_controller);
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(priv->flash))
+ return dev_err_probe(dev, -ENODEV,
+ "No flash connected to the system controller, auto-update not supported\n");
+
priv->dev = dev;
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, priv);
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-03 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-03 11:24 Conor Dooley [this message]
2026-03-10 18:24 ` [PATCH v1] firmware: microchip: fail auto-update probe if no flash found Conor Dooley
2026-03-12 18:01 ` Conor Dooley
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