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Alan Brady committed fe09ed0ee1f
i40e: use changed_flags to check I40E_FLAG_DISABLE_FW_LLDP Currently in i40e_set_priv_flags we use new_flags to check for the I40E_FLAG_DISABLE_FW_LLDP flag. This is an issue for a few a reasons. DISABLE_FW_LLDP is persistent across reboots/driver reloads. This means we need some way to detect if FW LLDP is enabled on init. We do this by trying to init_dcb and if it fails with EPERM we know LLDP is disabled in FW. This could be a problem on older FW versions or NPAR enabled PFs because there are situations where the FW could disable LLDP, but they do _not_ support using this flag to change it. If we do end up in this situation, the flag will be set, then when the user tries to change any priv flags, the driver thinks the user is trying to disable FW LLDP on a FW that doesn't support it and essentially forbids any priv flag changes. The fix is simple, instead of checking if this flag is set, we should be checking if the user is trying to _change_ the flag on unsupported FW versions. This patch also adds a comment explaining that the cmpxchg is the point of no return. Once we put the new flags into pf->flags we can't back out. Signed-off-by: Alan Brady <alan.brady@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>