Re: [PATCH net-next v2] firmware_loader: Expand Firmware upload error codes with firmware invalid error

[Köry Maincent]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:30:22 -0800
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:50:35 +0100 Kory Maincent wrote:
> > No error code are available to signal an invalid firmware content.
> > Drivers that can check the firmware content validity can not return this
> > specific failure to the user-space
> > 
> > Expand the firmware error code with an additional code:
> > - "firmware invalid" code which can be used when the provided firmware
> >   is invalid  
> 
> Any idea what this is?
> 
> lib/test_firmware.o: warning: objtool: test_fw_upload_prepare() falls through
> to next function __cfi_test_fw_upload_cancel()
> 
> My build shows this on an incremental clang 17 build.

For my curiosity, how do you get this error?

Enabling test_firmware and building with W=1 does not show the error.
 
Regards,
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