Add devlink flash update command. Advanced NICs have firmware
stored in flash and often cryptographically secured. Updating
that flash is handled by management firmware. Ethtool has a
flash update command which served us well, however, it has two
shortcomings:
- it takes rtnl_lock unnecessarily - really flash update has
nothing to do with networking, so using a networking device
as a handle is suboptimal, which leads us to the second one:
- it requires a functioning netdev - in case device enters an
error state and can't spawn a netdev (e.g. communication
with the device fails) there is no netdev to use as a handle
for flashing.
Devlink already has the ability to report the firmware versions,
now with the ability to update the firmware/flash we will be
able to recover devices in bad state.
To enable easy interoperability with ethtool add the target
partition ID. We may or may not add a different method of
identification, but there is no such immediate need.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com>
---
include/net/devlink.h | 2 ++
include/uapi/linux/devlink.h | 6 ++++++
net/core/devlink.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/devlink.h b/include/net/devlink.h
index 07660fe4c0e3..55b3478b1291 100644
--- a/include/net/devlink.h
+++ b/include/net/devlink.h
@@ -529,6 +529,8 @@ struct devlink_ops {
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
int (*info_get)(struct devlink *devlink, struct devlink_info_req *req,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
+ int (*flash_update)(struct devlink *devlink, const char *path,
+ u32 target, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
};
static inline void *devlink_priv(struct devlink *devlink)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
index 72d9f7c89190..f4417283fd1b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ enum devlink_command {
DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_DUMP_GET,
DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_DUMP_CLEAR,
+ DEVLINK_CMD_FLASH_UPDATE,
+
/* add new commands above here */
__DEVLINK_CMD_MAX,
DEVLINK_CMD_MAX = __DEVLINK_CMD_MAX - 1
@@ -326,6 +328,10 @@ enum devlink_attr {
DEVLINK_ATTR_HEALTH_REPORTER_DUMP_TS, /* u64 */
DEVLINK_ATTR_HEALTH_REPORTER_GRACEFUL_PERIOD, /* u64 */
DEVLINK_ATTR_HEALTH_REPORTER_AUTO_RECOVER, /* u8 */
+
+ DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_FILE_NAME, /* string */
+ DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_TARGET_ID, /* u32 */
+
/* add new attributes above here, update the policy in devlink.c */
__DEVLINK_ATTR_MAX,
diff --git a/net/core/devlink.c b/net/core/devlink.c
index 46c468a1f3dc..a4b5e194e33e 100644
--- a/net/core/devlink.c
+++ b/net/core/devlink.c
@@ -2660,6 +2660,27 @@ static int devlink_nl_cmd_reload(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct genl_info *info)
return devlink->ops->reload(devlink, info->extack);
}
+static int devlink_nl_cmd_flash_update(struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct genl_info *info)
+{
+ struct devlink *devlink = info->user_ptr[0];
+ const char *file_name;
+ u32 target = 0;
+
+ if (!devlink->ops->flash_update)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+ if (!info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_FILE_NAME])
+ return -EINVAL;
+ file_name = nla_data(info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_FILE_NAME]);
+
+ if (info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_TARGET_ID])
+ target =
nla_get_u32(info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_TARGET_ID]);
+
+ return devlink->ops->flash_update(devlink, file_name, target,
+ info->extack);
+}
+
static const struct devlink_param devlink_param_generic[] = {
{
.id = DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_ID_INT_ERR_RESET,
@@ -4876,6 +4897,8 @@ static const struct nla_policy
devlink_nl_policy[DEVLINK_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
[DEVLINK_ATTR_HEALTH_REPORTER_NAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING },
[DEVLINK_ATTR_HEALTH_REPORTER_GRACEFUL_PERIOD] = { .type = NLA_U64 },
[DEVLINK_ATTR_HEALTH_REPORTER_AUTO_RECOVER] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
+ [DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_FILE_NAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING },
+ [DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_TARGET_ID] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
};
static const struct genl_ops devlink_nl_ops[] = {
@@ -5164,6 +5187,13 @@ static const struct genl_ops devlink_nl_ops[] = {
.internal_flags = DEVLINK_NL_FLAG_NEED_DEVLINK |
DEVLINK_NL_FLAG_NO_LOCK,
},
+ {
+ .cmd = DEVLINK_CMD_FLASH_UPDATE,
+ .doit = devlink_nl_cmd_flash_update,
+ .policy = devlink_nl_policy,
+ .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM,
+ .internal_flags = DEVLINK_NL_FLAG_NEED_DEVLINK,
+ },
};
static struct genl_family devlink_nl_family __ro_after_init = {
--
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