[PATCH v6 7/7] cxl/fwctl: Propagate feature RPC delivery errors

From: Richard Cheng

Date: Tue Aug 25 2026 - 21:50:08 EST


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;
}

@@ -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 &&
+ 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;
--
2.43.0