linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] devlink: Remove extra assertion from flash notification logic

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Date:   Wed, 17 Nov 2021 06:02:28 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Amit Cohen <amcohen@...dia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] devlink: Remove extra assertion from flash
 notification logic

On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:23:18 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > I'd drop these notifications, the user didn't ask to flash the device,
> > it's just code reuse in the driver, right?  
> 
> Sorry, I missed your reply.
> 
> I'm not sure about code reuse, from the code, it looks like attempt to
> burn FW during mlxsw register.
> 
> __mlxsw_core_bus_device_register
>  -> mlxsw_core_fw_rev_validate
>   -> mlxsw_core_fw_flash
>    -> mlxfw_firmware_flash
>     -> mlxfw_status_notify
>      -> devlink_flash_update_status_notify
>       -> __devlink_flash_update_notify
>        -> WARN_ON(...)  
> 
> The mlxfw_firmware_flash() routine is called by mlx5 too, so I can't
> remove mlxfw_status_notify() calls without too much changes.
> 
> Easiest solution was to remove WARN_ON(), because no one really
> interested in these events anyway. I searched in github and didn't
> find any user who listened to them.

Drop in the core. Like this?


 	WARN_ON(cmd != DEVLINK_CMD_FLASH_UPDATE &&
 		cmd != DEVLINK_CMD_FLASH_UPDATE_END &&
 		cmd != DEVLINK_CMD_FLASH_UPDATE_STATUS);
-	WARN_ON(!xa_get_mark(&devlinks, devlink->index, DEVLINK_REGISTERED));
+
+	if (!xa_get_mark(&devlinks, devlink->index, DEVLINK_REGISTERED))
+		return;
 
 	msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!msg)