[PATCH v1] firmware: microchip: fail auto-update probe if no flash found

Conor Dooley conor at kernel.org
Tue Mar 3 03:24:06 PST 2026


From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>

There's no point letting the driver probe if there is no flash, as
trying to do a firmware upload will fail. Move the code that attempts
to get the flash from firmware upload to probe, and let it emit a
message to users stating why auto-update is not supported.
The code currently could have a problem if there's a flash in
devicetree, but the system controller driver fails to get a pointer to
it from the mtd subsystem, which will cause
mpfs_sys_controller_get_flash() to return an error. Check for errors and
null, instead of just null, in the new clause.

CC: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ec5b0f1193ad4 ("firmware: microchip: add PolarFire SoC Auto Update support")
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
---
CC: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
CC: Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara at microchip.com>
CC: Valentina.FernandezAlanis at microchip.com
CC: linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org
CC: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c b/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c
index 46b19d803446e..05ac82f1498b3 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c
@@ -113,10 +113,6 @@ static enum fw_upload_err mpfs_auto_update_prepare(struct fw_upload *fw_uploader
 	 * be added here.
 	 */
 
-	priv->flash = mpfs_sys_controller_get_flash(priv->sys_controller);
-	if (!priv->flash)
-		return FW_UPLOAD_ERR_HW_ERROR;
-
 	erase_size = round_up(erase_size, (u64)priv->flash->erasesize);
 
 	/*
@@ -427,6 +423,11 @@ static int mpfs_auto_update_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(priv->sys_controller),
 				     "Could not register as a sub device of the system controller\n");
 
+	priv->flash = mpfs_sys_controller_get_flash(priv->sys_controller);
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(priv->flash))
+		return dev_err_probe(dev, -ENODEV,
+				     "No flash connected to the system controller, auto-update not supported\n");
+
 	priv->dev = dev;
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, priv);
 
-- 
2.51.0




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