[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v7 10/14] idpf: print a debug message and bail in case of non-event ctlq message

Larysa Zaremba larysa.zaremba at intel.com
Tue Apr 28 08:26:44 UTC 2026


Unlike previous internal idpf ctlq implementation, idpf calls the default
message handler for all received messages that do not have a matching xn
transaction, not only for VIRTCHNL2_OP_EVENT. This leads to many error
messages printing garbage, because the parsing expected a valid event
message, but got e.g. a delayed response for a timed-out transaction.

The information about timed-out transactions and otherwise unhandleable
messages can still be valuable for developers, so print the information
with dynamic debug and exit the function, so the following functions can
parse valid events in peace.

Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba at intel.com>
Tested-by: Samuel Salin <Samuel.salin at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c
index 8936c2a67ce0..7c3dd89b61d6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c
@@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ void idpf_recv_event_msg(struct libie_ctlq_ctx *ctx,
 	u32 event;
 
 	adapter = container_of(ctx, struct idpf_adapter, ctlq_ctx);
+	if (ctlq_msg->chnl_opcode != VIRTCHNL2_OP_EVENT) {
+		dev_dbg(&adapter->pdev->dev,
+			"Unhandled message with opcode %u from CP\n",
+			ctlq_msg->chnl_opcode);
+		goto free_rx_buf;
+	}
+
 	if (payload_size < sizeof(*v2e)) {
 		dev_err_ratelimited(&adapter->pdev->dev, "Failed to receive valid payload for event msg (op %d len %d)\n",
 				    ctlq_msg->chnl_opcode,
-- 
2.47.0



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