From: Ville Syrjälä Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:28:52 +0000 (+0200) Subject: wifi: iwlwifi: Fix firmware version handling X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ca5898222914f399797cea1aeb0ce77109ca2e62;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git wifi: iwlwifi: Fix firmware version handling On my system the arithmetic done on the firmware numbers results in a negative number, but since the types are unsigned it gets interpreted as a large positive number. The end result is that the firmware gets rejected and wifi is defunct. Switch to signed types to handle this case correctly. iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: Driver unable to support your firmware API. Driver supports FW core 4294967294..2, firmware is 2. iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode failed with error -2 iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode failed with error -2 iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode failed with error -2 iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode failed with error -2 iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: no suitable firmware found! iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-5000-1 iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-5000-5 iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 5f708cccde9d ("wifi: iwlwifi: add a new FW file numbering scheme") Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220805 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113222852.15896-1-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c index 3391f07b01de..f8fc6f30fbe5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c @@ -1597,7 +1597,7 @@ static void _iwl_op_mode_stop(struct iwl_drv *drv) */ static void iwl_req_fw_callback(const struct firmware *ucode_raw, void *context) { - unsigned int min_core, max_core, loaded_core; + int min_core, max_core, loaded_core; struct iwl_drv *drv = context; struct iwl_fw *fw = &drv->fw; const struct iwl_ucode_header *ucode; @@ -1676,7 +1676,7 @@ static void iwl_req_fw_callback(const struct firmware *ucode_raw, void *context) if (loaded_core < min_core || loaded_core > max_core) { IWL_ERR(drv, "Driver unable to support your firmware API. " - "Driver supports FW core %u..%u, firmware is %u.\n", + "Driver supports FW core %d..%d, firmware is %d.\n", min_core, max_core, loaded_core); goto try_again; }