From: Lukas Wunner Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:56:43 +0000 (+0100) Subject: PCI/AER: Stop ruling out unbound devices as error source X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1ab4a3c805084d752ec571efc78272295a9f2f74;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git PCI/AER: Stop ruling out unbound devices as error source When searching for the error source, the AER driver rules out devices whose enable_cnt is zero. This was introduced in 2009 by commit 28eb27cf0839 ("PCI AER: support invalid error source IDs") without providing a rationale. Drivers typically call pci_enable_device() on probe, hence the enable_cnt check essentially filters out unbound devices. At the time of the commit, drivers had to opt in to AER by calling pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting() and so any AER-enabled device could be assumed to be bound to a driver. The check thus made sense because it allowed skipping config space accesses to devices which were known not to be the error source. But since 2022, AER is universally enabled on all devices when they are enumerated, cf. commit f26e58bf6f54 ("PCI/AER: Enable error reporting when AER is native"). Errors may very well be reported by unbound devices, e.g. due to link instability. By ruling them out as error source, errors reported by them are neither logged nor cleared. When they do get bound and another error occurs, the earlier error is reported together with the new error, which may confuse users. Stop doing so. Fixes: f26e58bf6f54 ("PCI/AER: Enable error reporting when AER is native") Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.0+ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/734338c2e8b669db5a5a3b45d34131b55ffebfca.1774605029.git.lukas@wunner.de --- diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c index d916378bc7072..c4fd9c0b2a548 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c @@ -1041,8 +1041,6 @@ static bool is_error_source(struct pci_dev *dev, struct aer_err_info *e_info) * 3) There are multiple errors and prior ID comparing fails; * We check AER status registers to find possible reporter. */ - if (atomic_read(&dev->enable_cnt) == 0) - return false; /* Check if AER is enabled */ pcie_capability_read_word(dev, PCI_EXP_DEVCTL, ®16);