Re: [PATCH v6 7/7] cxl/fwctl: Propagate feature RPC delivery errors
From: Dave Jiang
Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 18:11:30 EST
On 8/25/26 6:45 PM, Richard Cheng wrote:
> FWCTL_RPC requires delivery failures to be returned as ioctl errors,
> while device errors are reported in the output. Get and Set Feature
> instead converted all failures into normal responses, sometimes with a
> SUCCESS device status.
>
> Initialize the return code to SUCCESS. When the helper fails without a
> device error code, return its errno. Continue reporting actual device
> errors through rpc_out->retval.
>
> Fixes: 5908f3ed6dc2 ("cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for get feature")
> Fixes: eb5dfcb9e36d ("cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for set feature")
> Signed-off-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changelog:
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - Remove redundant CXL_MBOX_CMD_RC_SUCCESS assignments. (Dave Jiang)
>
> ---
> drivers/cxl/core/features.c | 14 +++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/features.c b/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
> index 8d44ce829497..28b326df3398 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
> @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ ssize_t cxl_get_feature(struct cxl_mailbox *cxl_mbox, const uuid_t *feat_uuid,
> int rc;
>
> if (return_code)
> - *return_code = CXL_MBOX_CMD_RC_INPUT;
> + *return_code = CXL_MBOX_CMD_RC_SUCCESS;
>
> if (!feat_out || !feat_out_size)
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -267,9 +267,6 @@ ssize_t cxl_get_feature(struct cxl_mailbox *cxl_mbox, const uuid_t *feat_uuid,
> data_rcvd_size += mbox_cmd.size_out;
> } while (data_rcvd_size < feat_out_size);
>
> - if (return_code)
> - *return_code = CXL_MBOX_CMD_RC_SUCCESS;
> -
> return data_rcvd_size;
> }
>
> @@ -289,7 +286,7 @@ int cxl_set_feature(struct cxl_mailbox *cxl_mbox,
> size_t hdr_size;
>
> if (return_code)
> - *return_code = CXL_MBOX_CMD_RC_INPUT;
> + *return_code = CXL_MBOX_CMD_RC_SUCCESS;
>
> if (feat_data_size > U16_MAX - offset)
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -341,8 +338,6 @@ int cxl_set_feature(struct cxl_mailbox *cxl_mbox,
>
> data_sent_size += data_in_size;
> if (data_sent_size >= feat_data_size) {
> - if (return_code)
> - *return_code = CXL_MBOX_CMD_RC_SUCCESS;
> return 0;
> }
Minor. the {} can now go.
>
> @@ -492,6 +487,9 @@ static void *cxlctl_get_feature(struct cxl_features_state *cxlfs,
> data_size = cxl_get_feature(cxl_mbox, &feat_in->uuid,
> feat_in->selection, rpc_out->payload,
> count, offset, &return_code);
> + if (data_size < 0 &&
Do we need to handle the 'data_size == 0' case here?
> + return_code == CXL_MBOX_CMD_RC_SUCCESS)
> + return ERR_PTR(data_size);
> *out_len = sizeof(struct fwctl_rpc_cxl_out);
> if (data_size <= 0) {
> rpc_out->size = 0;
> @@ -544,6 +542,8 @@ static void *cxlctl_set_feature(struct cxl_features_state *cxlfs,
> rc = cxl_set_feature(cxl_mbox, &feat_in->uuid,
> feat_in->version, feat_in->feat_data,
> data_size, flags, offset, &return_code);
> + if (rc && return_code == CXL_MBOX_CMD_RC_SUCCESS)
> + return ERR_PTR(rc);
> *out_len = sizeof(*rpc_out);
> if (rc) {
> rpc_out->retval = return_code;
We may also need to add something like this because of the change of default return code. The code segment is similar to cxl_xfer_log().
diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/features.c b/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
index 28b326df3398..2e62f3720072 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
@@ -259,6 +259,17 @@ ssize_t cxl_get_feature(struct cxl_mailbox *cxl_mbox, const uuid_t *feat_uuid,
.min_out = data_to_rd_size,
};
rc = cxl_internal_send_cmd(cxl_mbox, &mbox_cmd);
+ /*
+ * Per CXL r4.0 8.2.10.6.2, when Offset + Count runs past the
+ * end of the Feature the device returns only the bytes up to
+ * the Feature size. cxl_internal_send_cmd() reports that as
+ * -EIO with a short payload, so stop and return what arrived.
+ */
+ if (rc == -EIO && mbox_cmd.size_out &&
+ mbox_cmd.size_out < data_to_rd_size) {
+ data_rcvd_size += mbox_cmd.size_out;
+ break;
+ }
if (rc < 0 || !mbox_cmd.size_out) {
if (return_code)
*return_code = mbox_cmd.return_code;