e1000e: disregard NVM checksum on tgp when valid checksum bit is not set
authorJacek Kowalski <jacek@jacekk.info>
Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:33:39 +0000 (10:33 +0200)
committerTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:31:09 +0000 (10:31 -0700)
commit536fd741c7ac907d63166cdae1081b1febfab613
tree78c85bd19aaaba150abc714ed80dd6ca540a6b5c
parent4ff12d82dac119b4b99b5a78b5af3bf2474c0a36
e1000e: disregard NVM checksum on tgp when valid checksum bit is not set

As described by Vitaly Lifshits:

> Starting from Tiger Lake, LAN NVM is locked for writes by SW, so the
> driver cannot perform checksum validation and correction. This means
> that all NVM images must leave the factory with correct checksum and
> checksum valid bit set. Since Tiger Lake devices were the first to have
> this lock, some systems in the field did not meet this requirement.
> Therefore, for these transitional devices we skip checksum update and
> verification, if the valid bit is not set.

Signed-off-by: Jacek Kowalski <jacek@jacekk.info>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Lifshits <vitaly.lifshits@intel.com>
Fixes: 4051f68318ca9 ("e1000e: Do not take care about recovery NVM checksum")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Mor Bar-Gabay <morx.bar.gabay@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c