netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] ionic: catch transition back to RUNNING with fw

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Date:   Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:30:45 -0800
From:   Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, drivers@...sando.io
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] ionic: catch transition back to RUNNING with
 fw_generation 0

On 2/17/22 8:12 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:02:49 -0800 Shannon Nelson wrote:
>> In some graceful updates that get initially triggered by the
>> RESET event, especially with older firmware, the fw_generation
>> bits don't change but the fw_status is seen to go to 0 then back
>> to 1.  However, the driver didn't perform the restart, remained
>> waiting for fw_generation to change, and got left in limbo.
>>
>> This is because the clearing of idev->fw_status_ready to 0
>> didn't happen correctly as it was buried in the transition
>> trigger: since the transition down was triggered not here
>> but in the RESET event handler, the clear to 0 didn't happen,
>> so the transition back to 1 wasn't detected.
>>
>> Fix this particular case by bringing the setting of
>> idev->fw_status_ready back out to where it was before.
>>
>> Fixes: 398d1e37f960 ("ionic: add FW_STOPPING state")
>> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
> This looks like a fix, and should go separately to net.
> Is there a reason behind posting together? The other patches
> don't even depend on this one.

I posted it to net-next because the patch it is fixing is still in 
net-next and not in net or stable yet.

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