Re: [PATCH] can: at91_can: fix passive-state AERR flooding

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

On 05.10.2021 13:30:23, Brandon Maier wrote:
> When the at91_can is a single node on the bus and a user attempts to
> transmit, the can state machine will report ack errors and increment the
> transmit error count until it reaches the passive-state. Per the
> specification, it will then transmit with a passive error, but will stop
> incrementing the transmit error count. This results in the host machine
> being flooded with the AERR interrupt forever, or until another node
> rejoins the bus.
> 
> To prevent the AERR flooding, disable the AERR interrupt when we are in
> passive mode.

Can you implement Bus Error Reporting?

| https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.14/source/include/uapi/linux/can/netlink.h#L99

This way the user can control if bus errors, and the ACK error is one of
them, should be reported. Bus error reporting is disabled by default. I
think enabling AT91_IRQ_ERR_FRAME only if CAN_CTRLMODE_BERR_REPORTING is
active should do the trick.

regards,
Marc

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