Hi Luciano,
On 04/07/2018 08:54 AM, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 16:55 +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
[...]
>> after upgrading to 4608f064532c ("Merge
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next")
>> my kernel log gets constantly flooded with the below message and
>> wireless stops
>> working ... just in case you haven't had a report on this yet.
>> Downgrading back
>> to older v4.16-rcX kernel gets everything back to normal working
>> state; haven't
>> had time for bisection yet, but hopefully the below would provide
>> some clue.
>
> [...]
>
>> [ 513.429773] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Failed to send quota: -5
>> [ 513.429775] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Failed to update quotas after
>> restart (-5)
>> [ 514.163758] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Microcode SW error
>> detected. Restarting 0x82000000.
>> [ 514.163987] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
>> [ 514.163988] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Status: 0x00000100, count: 6
>> [ 514.163989] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Loaded firmware version:
>> 27.455470.0
>> [ 514.163991] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: 0x00000038 | BAD_COMMAND
>
> [...]
>
> I did add support for new FW APIs, so maybe some check for the FW
> version is missing somewhere.
>
> Which NIC are you using? I can see that you're using an older version
> of the firmware (27.455470.0). For 7265D and 3168 we already have
> version 29. For 8000C and 8260 we have vesion 36. You can find all
> the latest versions in our fork of linux-firmware.git[1]. And soon the
> main linux-firmware.git[2] will also include the latest versions, since
> I sent a pull request yesteday ago.
>
> Meanwhile, I'll investigate this problem. It shouldn't happen even if
> you're using an older firmware. Maybe I'll have to stop supporting
> version 27 in newer kernels, let's see.
Here's from the log on an older (working) kernel:
$ dmesg | grep iwlwifi
[ 7.672955] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 7.705000] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for
iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode failed with error -2
[ 7.705208] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for
iwlwifi-8000C-35.ucode failed with error -2
[ 7.705391] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for
iwlwifi-8000C-34.ucode failed with error -2
[ 7.705850] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for
iwlwifi-8000C-33.ucode failed with error -2
[ 7.706118] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for
iwlwifi-8000C-32.ucode failed with error -2
[ 7.706463] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for
iwlwifi-8000C-31.ucode failed with error -2
[ 7.706789] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for
iwlwifi-8000C-30.ucode failed with error -2
[ 7.707182] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for
iwlwifi-8000C-29.ucode failed with error -2
[ 7.707746] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for
iwlwifi-8000C-28.ucode failed with error -2
[ 7.714899] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version 27.455470.0
op_mode iwlmvm
[ 8.400655] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC
8260, REV=0x208
[ 8.475161] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: base HW address: [...]
[ 8.568333] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0 wlp4s0: renamed from wlan0
I'll try to upgrade the FW in the mean time, thanks!
> [1]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/linux-firmware.git/
> [2]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Luca.
>
