netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3] firmware_loader: Expand Firmware upload error codes with firmware invalid error

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Message-ID: <20231124164834.GT50352@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:48:34 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	Russ Weight <russ.weight@...ux.dev>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] firmware_loader: Expand Firmware upload
 error codes with firmware invalid error

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 02:52:43PM +0100, Kory Maincent wrote:
> No error code are available to signal an invalid firmware content.
> Drivers that can check the firmware content validity can not return this
> specific failure to the user-space
> 
> Expand the firmware error code with an additional code:
> - "firmware invalid" code which can be used when the provided firmware
>   is invalid
> 
> Sync lib/test_firmware.c file accordingly.
> 
> Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Add the newly introduced error code to test_firmware.c

I verified that the error obvserved in v2 when compiling the above
file with clang-16 has been resolved.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231121173022.3cb2fcad@kernel.org/

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>

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