linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] e1000e: disregard NVM checksum on tgp when valid checksum mask is not set

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Message-ID: <fe064a2c-31d6-4671-ba30-198d121782d0@jacekk.info>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:58:07 +0200
From: Jacek Kowalski <jacek@...ekk.info>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
 Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] e1000e: disregard NVM checksum on tgp when valid
 checksum mask is not set

As described by Vitaly Lifshits:

> Starting from Tiger Lake, LAN NVM is locked for writes by SW, so the
> driver cannot perform checksum validation and correction. This means
> that all NVM images must leave the factory with correct checksum and
> checksum valid bit set. Since Tiger Lake devices were the first to have
> this lock, some systems in the field did not meet this requirement.
> Therefore, for these transitional devices we skip checksum update and
> verification, if the valid bit is not set.

Signed-off-by: Jacek Kowalski <Jacek@...ekk.info>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Lifshits <vitaly.lifshits@...el.com>
Fixes: 4051f68318ca9 ("e1000e: Do not take care about recovery NVM checksum")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
v1 -> v2: updated patch description
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c
index 364378133526..df4e7d781cb1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c
@@ -4274,6 +4274,8 @@ static s32 e1000_validate_nvm_checksum_ich8lan(struct e1000_hw *hw)
 			ret_val = e1000e_update_nvm_checksum(hw);
 			if (ret_val)
 				return ret_val;
+		} else if (hw->mac.type == e1000_pch_tgp) {
+			return 0;
 		}
 	}

-- 
2.47.2