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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:45:41 +0200 From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org> To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> Cc: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, michel@...com, dcavalca@...com Subject: Re: ethtool 5.16 release / ethtool -m bug fix On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 02:51:59PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > Hi Michal! > > Sorry to hasten but I'm wondering if there is a plan to cut the 5.16 > ethtool release? Looks like there is a problem in SFP EEPROM parsing > code, at least with QSFP28s, user space always requests page 3 now. > This ends in an -EINVAL (at least for drivers not supporting the paged > mode). Jakub, are you sure you are dealing with QSFP and not SFP? I'm asking because I assume the driver in question is mlx5 that has this code in its implementation of get_module_eeprom_by_page(): ``` switch (module_id) { case MLX5_MODULE_ID_SFP: if (params->page > 0) return -EINVAL; break; ``` And indeed, ethtool(8) commit fc47fdb7c364 ("ethtool: Refactor human-readable module EEPROM output for new API") always asks for Upper Page 03h, regardless of the module type. It is not optimal for ethtool(8) to ask for unsupported pages and I made sure it's not doing it anymore, but I believe it's wrong for the kernel to return an error. All the specifications that I'm aware of mandate that when an unsupported page is requested, the Page Select byte will revert to 0. That is why Upper Page 00h is always read-only. For reference, see section 10.3 in SFF-8472, section 6.2.11 in SFF-8636 and section 8.2.13 in CMIS. Also, the entire point of the netlink interface is that the kernel can remain ignorant of the EEPROM layout and keep all the logic in user space. > > By the looks of it - Ido fixed this in 6e2b32a0d0ea ("sff-8636: Request > specific pages for parsing in netlink path") but it may be too much code > to backport so I'm thinking it's easiest for distros to move to v5.16. I did target fixes at 'ethtool' and features at 'ethtool-next', but I wasn't aware of this bug.
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