linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/2] e1000e: ignore factory-default checksum value on TGP platform

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Message-ID: <5c75ef9b-12f5-4923-aef8-01d6c998f0af@jacekk.info>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:14:40 +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, Vlad URSU <vlad@...u.me>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] e1000e: ignore factory-default checksum value on TGP
 platform

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.

Unfortunately some systems have left the factory with an empty checksum.
NVM is not modifiable on this platform, hence ignore checksum 0xFFFF on
Tiger Lake systems to work around this.

Signed-off-by: Jacek Kowalski <Jacek@...ekk.info>
Tested-by: Vlad URSU <vlad@...u.me>
Fixes: 4051f68318ca9 ("e1000e: Do not take care about recovery NVM checksum")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
v2: new check to fix yet another checksum issue
v2 -> v3: fix variable bein compared, drop u16 cast
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/defines.h | 3 +++
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/nvm.c     | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/defines.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/defines.h
index 8294a7c4f122..2dcf46080533 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/defines.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/defines.h
@@ -638,6 +638,9 @@
 /* For checksumming, the sum of all words in the NVM should equal 0xBABA. */
 #define NVM_SUM                    0xBABA

+/* Factory-default checksum value */
+#define NVM_CHECKSUM_FACTORY_DEFAULT 0xFFFF
+
 /* PBA (printed board assembly) number words */
 #define NVM_PBA_OFFSET_0           8
 #define NVM_PBA_OFFSET_1           9
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/nvm.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/nvm.c
index e609f4df86f4..56f2434bd00a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/nvm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/nvm.c
@@ -558,6 +558,11 @@ s32 e1000e_validate_nvm_checksum_generic(struct e1000_hw *hw)
 		checksum += nvm_data;
 	}

+	if (hw->mac.type == e1000_pch_tgp && nvm_data == NVM_CHECKSUM_FACTORY_DEFAULT) {
+		e_dbg("Factory-default NVM Checksum on TGP platform - ignoring\n");
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	if (checksum != (u16)NVM_SUM) {
 		e_dbg("NVM Checksum Invalid\n");
 		return -E1000_ERR_NVM;
-- 
2.47.2