[PATCH net-next] i40e: Avoid repeating RX filter warning

From: Chris Packham

Date: Wed May 13 2026 - 20:38:09 EST


When the i40e runs out of space for RX filters the driver switches to
promiscuous mode and warns that it has done so. In scenarios with a
large number of these filters this can generate a lot of warnings. For
example:

$ dmesg -c > /dev/null
$ ip link add dev br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 vlan_default_pvid 1
$ ip link set dev eth7 master br0
$ bridge vlan add vid 1 dev eth7 pvid untagged self
$ bridge vlan add vid 2-4094 dev eth7 tagged
$ dmesg
[ 25.601705] i40e 0000:01:00.1: Error LIBIE_AQ_RC_ENOSPC, forcing overflow promiscuous on PF
[ 25.601833] i40e 0000:01:00.1: Error LIBIE_AQ_RC_ENOSPC, forcing overflow promiscuous on PF
[ 25.601961] i40e 0000:01:00.1: Error LIBIE_AQ_RC_ENOSPC, forcing overflow promiscuous on PF
[ 25.602088] i40e 0000:01:00.1: Error LIBIE_AQ_RC_ENOSPC, forcing overflow promiscuous on PF
[ 25.602216] i40e 0000:01:00.1: Error LIBIE_AQ_RC_ENOSPC, forcing overflow promiscuous on PF
[ 25.602344] i40e 0000:01:00.1: Error LIBIE_AQ_RC_ENOSPC, forcing overflow promiscuous on PF
...

Use test_and_set_bit() so that the warning is only issued when the
driver enables promiscuous mode and not on the addition of subsequent RX
filters.

Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Resend with net-next tag

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index 926d001b2150..8741990b5a5e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -2408,10 +2408,11 @@ void i40e_aqc_add_filters(struct i40e_vsi *vsi, const char *vsi_name,

if (fcnt != num_add) {
if (vsi->type == I40E_VSI_MAIN) {
- set_bit(__I40E_VSI_OVERFLOW_PROMISC, vsi->state);
- dev_warn(&vsi->back->pdev->dev,
- "Error %s adding RX filters on %s, promiscuous mode forced on\n",
- libie_aq_str(aq_status), vsi_name);
+ if (!test_and_set_bit(__I40E_VSI_OVERFLOW_PROMISC, vsi->state)) {
+ dev_warn(&vsi->back->pdev->dev,
+ "Error %s adding RX filters on %s, promiscuous mode forced on\n",
+ libie_aq_str(aq_status), vsi_name);
+ }
} else if (vsi->type == I40E_VSI_SRIOV ||
vsi->type == I40E_VSI_VMDQ1 ||
vsi->type == I40E_VSI_VMDQ2) {
@@ -2461,10 +2462,11 @@ i40e_aqc_broadcast_filter(struct i40e_vsi *vsi, const char *vsi_name,
}

if (aq_ret) {
- set_bit(__I40E_VSI_OVERFLOW_PROMISC, vsi->state);
- dev_warn(&vsi->back->pdev->dev,
- "Error %s, forcing overflow promiscuous on %s\n",
- libie_aq_str(hw->aq.asq_last_status), vsi_name);
+ if (!test_and_set_bit(__I40E_VSI_OVERFLOW_PROMISC, vsi->state)) {
+ dev_warn(&vsi->back->pdev->dev,
+ "Error %s, forcing overflow promiscuous on %s\n",
+ libie_aq_str(hw->aq.asq_last_status), vsi_name);
+ }
}

return aq_ret;
--
2.54.0