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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>qed: Reimplement qed_mcast_bin_from_mac() using library functions</title>
<updated>2026-03-19T02:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-16T22:14:53+00:00</published>
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The calculation done by qed_calc_crc32c() is the standard
least-significant-bit-first CRC-32C except it uses
most-significant-bit-first order for the actual CRC variable.  That is
equivalent to bit-reflecting the input and output CRC.  Replace it with
equivalent calls to the corresponding library functions.

Tested with a simple userspace program which tested that the old and new
implementations of qed_mcast_bin_from_mac() produce the same outputs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260316221453.66078-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The calculation done by qed_calc_crc32c() is the standard
least-significant-bit-first CRC-32C except it uses
most-significant-bit-first order for the actual CRC variable.  That is
equivalent to bit-reflecting the input and output CRC.  Replace it with
equivalent calls to the corresponding library functions.

Tested with a simple userspace program which tested that the old and new
implementations of qed_mcast_bin_from_mac() produce the same outputs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260316221453.66078-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>devlink: pass extack through to devlink_param::get()</title>
<updated>2025-11-21T03:01:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Zahka</name>
<email>daniel.zahka@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-19T02:50:31+00:00</published>
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Allow devlink_param::get() handlers to report error messages via
extack. This function is called in a few different contexts, but not
all of them will have an valid extack to use.

When devlink_param::get() is called from param_get_doit or
param_get_dumpit contexts, pass the extack through so that drivers can
report errors when retrieving param values. devlink_param::get() is
called from the context of devlink_param_notify(), pass NULL in for
the extack.

Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov &lt;aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka &lt;daniel.zahka@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-2-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Allow devlink_param::get() handlers to report error messages via
extack. This function is called in a few different contexts, but not
all of them will have an valid extack to use.

When devlink_param::get() is called from param_get_doit or
param_get_dumpit contexts, pass the extack through so that drivers can
report errors when retrieving param values. devlink_param::get() is
called from the context of devlink_param_notify(), pass NULL in for
the extack.

Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov &lt;aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka &lt;daniel.zahka@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-2-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: qed: Remove redundant NULL checks after list_first_entry()</title>
<updated>2025-09-26T23:43:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhen Ni</name>
<email>zhen.ni@easystack.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-24T03:02:19+00:00</published>
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list_first_entry() never returns NULL — if the list is empty, it still
returns a pointer to an invalid object, leading to potential invalid
memory access when dereferenced.
The calls to list_first_entry() are always guarded by !list_empty(),
which guarantees a valid entry is returned. Therefore, the additional
`if (!p_buffer) break;` checks in qed_ooo_release_connection_isles(),
qed_ooo_release_all_isles(), and qed_ooo_free() are redundant and
unreachable.

Remove the dead code for clarity and consistency with common list
handling patterns in the kernel. No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Ni &lt;zhen.ni@easystack.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250924030219.1252773-1-zhen.ni@easystack.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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list_first_entry() never returns NULL — if the list is empty, it still
returns a pointer to an invalid object, leading to potential invalid
memory access when dereferenced.
The calls to list_first_entry() are always guarded by !list_empty(),
which guarantees a valid entry is returned. Therefore, the additional
`if (!p_buffer) break;` checks in qed_ooo_release_connection_isles(),
qed_ooo_release_all_isles(), and qed_ooo_free() are redundant and
unreachable.

Remove the dead code for clarity and consistency with common list
handling patterns in the kernel. No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Ni &lt;zhen.ni@easystack.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250924030219.1252773-1-zhen.ni@easystack.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users</title>
<updated>2025-09-23T00:40:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Crivellari</name>
<email>marco.crivellari@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T14:24:27+00:00</published>
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Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This change adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag at the network subsystem, to explicitly
request the use of the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist for one release
cycle to allow callers to transition their calls.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.

All existing users have been updated accordingly.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250918142427.309519-4-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This change adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag at the network subsystem, to explicitly
request the use of the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist for one release
cycle to allow callers to transition their calls.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.

All existing users have been updated accordingly.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250918142427.309519-4-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2025-09-18T18:26:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T18:23:29+00:00</published>
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Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc7).

No conflicts.

Adjacent changes:

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/fs.h
  9536fbe10c9d ("net/mlx5e: Add PSP steering in local NIC RX")
  7601a0a46216 ("net/mlx5e: Add a miss level for ipsec crypto offload")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc7).

No conflicts.

Adjacent changes:

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/fs.h
  9536fbe10c9d ("net/mlx5e: Add PSP steering in local NIC RX")
  7601a0a46216 ("net/mlx5e: Add a miss level for ipsec crypto offload")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>qed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements</title>
<updated>2025-09-14T21:25:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jamie Bainbridge</name>
<email>jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-10T06:29:16+00:00</published>
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In the protection override dump path, the firmware can return far too
many GRC elements, resulting in attempting to write past the end of the
previously-kmalloc'ed dump buffer.

This will result in a kernel panic with reason:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ADDRESS

where "ADDRESS" is just past the end of the protection override dump
buffer. The start address of the buffer is:
 p_hwfn-&gt;cdev-&gt;dbg_features[DBG_FEATURE_PROTECTION_OVERRIDE].dump_buf
and the size of the buffer is buf_size in the same data structure.

The panic can be arrived at from either the qede Ethernet driver path:

    [exception RIP: qed_grc_dump_addr_range+0x108]
 qed_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc02662ed [qed]
 qed_dbg_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc0267792 [qed]
 qed_dbg_feature at ffffffffc026aa8f [qed]
 qed_dbg_all_data at ffffffffc026b211 [qed]
 qed_fw_fatal_reporter_dump at ffffffffc027298a [qed]
 devlink_health_do_dump at ffffffff82497f61
 devlink_health_report at ffffffff8249cf29
 qed_report_fatal_error at ffffffffc0272baf [qed]
 qede_sp_task at ffffffffc045ed32 [qede]
 process_one_work at ffffffff81d19783

or the qedf storage driver path:

    [exception RIP: qed_grc_dump_addr_range+0x108]
 qed_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc068b2ed [qed]
 qed_dbg_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc068c792 [qed]
 qed_dbg_feature at ffffffffc068fa8f [qed]
 qed_dbg_all_data at ffffffffc0690211 [qed]
 qed_fw_fatal_reporter_dump at ffffffffc069798a [qed]
 devlink_health_do_dump at ffffffff8aa95e51
 devlink_health_report at ffffffff8aa9ae19
 qed_report_fatal_error at ffffffffc0697baf [qed]
 qed_hw_err_notify at ffffffffc06d32d7 [qed]
 qed_spq_post at ffffffffc06b1011 [qed]
 qed_fcoe_destroy_conn at ffffffffc06b2e91 [qed]
 qedf_cleanup_fcport at ffffffffc05e7597 [qedf]
 qedf_rport_event_handler at ffffffffc05e7bf7 [qedf]
 fc_rport_work at ffffffffc02da715 [libfc]
 process_one_work at ffffffff8a319663

Resolve this by clamping the firmware's return value to the maximum
number of legal elements the firmware should return.

Fixes: d52c89f120de8 ("qed*: Utilize FW 8.37.2.0")
Signed-off-by: Jamie Bainbridge &lt;jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f8e1182934aa274c18d0682a12dbaf347595469c.1757485536.git.jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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In the protection override dump path, the firmware can return far too
many GRC elements, resulting in attempting to write past the end of the
previously-kmalloc'ed dump buffer.

This will result in a kernel panic with reason:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ADDRESS

where "ADDRESS" is just past the end of the protection override dump
buffer. The start address of the buffer is:
 p_hwfn-&gt;cdev-&gt;dbg_features[DBG_FEATURE_PROTECTION_OVERRIDE].dump_buf
and the size of the buffer is buf_size in the same data structure.

The panic can be arrived at from either the qede Ethernet driver path:

    [exception RIP: qed_grc_dump_addr_range+0x108]
 qed_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc02662ed [qed]
 qed_dbg_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc0267792 [qed]
 qed_dbg_feature at ffffffffc026aa8f [qed]
 qed_dbg_all_data at ffffffffc026b211 [qed]
 qed_fw_fatal_reporter_dump at ffffffffc027298a [qed]
 devlink_health_do_dump at ffffffff82497f61
 devlink_health_report at ffffffff8249cf29
 qed_report_fatal_error at ffffffffc0272baf [qed]
 qede_sp_task at ffffffffc045ed32 [qede]
 process_one_work at ffffffff81d19783

or the qedf storage driver path:

    [exception RIP: qed_grc_dump_addr_range+0x108]
 qed_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc068b2ed [qed]
 qed_dbg_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc068c792 [qed]
 qed_dbg_feature at ffffffffc068fa8f [qed]
 qed_dbg_all_data at ffffffffc0690211 [qed]
 qed_fw_fatal_reporter_dump at ffffffffc069798a [qed]
 devlink_health_do_dump at ffffffff8aa95e51
 devlink_health_report at ffffffff8aa9ae19
 qed_report_fatal_error at ffffffffc0697baf [qed]
 qed_hw_err_notify at ffffffffc06d32d7 [qed]
 qed_spq_post at ffffffffc06b1011 [qed]
 qed_fcoe_destroy_conn at ffffffffc06b2e91 [qed]
 qedf_cleanup_fcport at ffffffffc05e7597 [qedf]
 qedf_rport_event_handler at ffffffffc05e7bf7 [qedf]
 fc_rport_work at ffffffffc02da715 [libfc]
 process_one_work at ffffffff8a319663

Resolve this by clamping the firmware's return value to the maximum
number of legal elements the firmware should return.

Fixes: d52c89f120de8 ("qed*: Utilize FW 8.37.2.0")
Signed-off-by: Jamie Bainbridge &lt;jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f8e1182934aa274c18d0682a12dbaf347595469c.1757485536.git.jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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