netdev - [PATCH] pci: Added quirk to disable msi for MCP55 NIC on Asus P5N32-SLI Premium

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:31:35 +0100
From:	Andreas Petlund <apetlund@...ula.no>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	jeff@...zik.org
Subject: [PATCH] pci: Added quirk to disable msi for MCP55 NIC on Asus P5N32-SLI
 Premium

Andreas Petlund wrote:
> I have a machine with an Asus motherboard (P5N32-SLI Premium - NVidia
> MCP55 chipset) where the forcedeth module does not work with msi. This
> seems to bother quite some people ( see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/136836 ).
> 
> Reading various forum posts makes me inclined to believe this is a
> firmware problem, but Asus have no fix with their latest BIOS-upgrade
> (and I am starting to believe that we will never see one as the last
> update came in March this year).
> 
> Is it an option to workaround this problem using a hardware-specific
> quirk that disables msi/msix for the device, or will that affect a lot
> of users that have no issues with this? On my system the NIC identifies
> as "cb84". I don't know if this is a common factor for all who has this
> problem, or only for my motherboard.
> Maybe the benefit of making it work with all MCP55-NICs is worth
> disabling msi/msix also for unaffected ones?
> 
> Does anybody have alternative suggestions?
> 

This patch detects the known affected motherboard and disables msi for the MCP55 NIC devices, allowing normal network operation without manually having to reload forcedeth module with msi=0 and msix=0.


Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <andreas@...lund.no>
---
 drivers/pci/quirks.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/quirks.c b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
index 5049a47..1bbd912 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/quirks.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
@@ -1828,6 +1828,22 @@ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_SERVERWORKS,
 			 PCI_DEVICE_ID_SERVERWORKS_HT1000_PXB,
 			 ht_enable_msi_mapping);
 
+/* The P5N32-SLI Premium motherboard from Asus has a problem with msi
+ * for the MCP55 NIC. It is not yet determined whether the msi problem
+ * also affects other devices. As for now, turn off msi for this device.
+ */
+static void __devinit nvenet_msi_disable(struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
+	if (dmi_name_in_vendors("P5N32-SLI PREMIUM")) {
+		dev_info(&dev->dev,
+			 "Disabling msi for MCP55 NIC on P5N32-SLI Premium\n");
+		dev->no_msi = 1;
+	}
+}
+DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY(PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA,
+			PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NVENET_15,
+			nvenet_msi_disable);
+
 static void __devinit nv_msi_ht_cap_quirk(struct pci_dev *dev)
 {
 	struct pci_dev *host_bridge;
-- 
1.5.6.3

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html