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2026-08-14rust: introduce abstractions for fwctlZhi Wang
Introduce safe Rust wrappers around struct fwctl_device and struct fwctl_uctx. This lets Rust drivers register fwctl devices and implement firmware RPC callbacks through a typed trait interface. The abstraction keeps lifetime and reference-count handling inside the wrapper, exposes pinned per-FD user contexts to drivers, and validates the layout assumptions required by the C fwctl allocation model. Allocation sizes are padded so the kmalloc-backed C allocations also satisfy Rust alignment requirements. Registration owns driver private data with a lifetime tied to the bound parent device and verifies the parent identity before registration. Callbacks access that data through a higher-ranked closure, preventing its erased lifetime from escaping, while Device remains only the refcounted fwctl object. This avoids requiring Rust drop glue from the fwctl_device release path after unregister or module teardown. RPC callbacks receive typed scope information, a mutable request/response buffer, and the userspace output-buffer size. Response pointer conversion, length validation, and raw output-length handling remain inside the abstraction. Add the Rust sources to the FWCTL MAINTAINERS entry and add myself as the maintainer for the Rust abstractions. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/20260813152312.1311142-2-zhiw@nvidia.com Co-developed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Zhi Wang <zhiw@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
2026-03-31fwctl/bnxt_fwctl: Add bnxt fwctl devicePavan Chebbi
Create bnxt_fwctl device. This will bind to bnxt's aux device. On the upper edge, it will register with the fwctl subsystem. It will make use of bnxt's ULP functions to send FW commands. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/20260314151605.932749-5-pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com Reviewed-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
2025-03-21pds_fwctl: initial driver frameworkShannon Nelson
Initial files for adding a new fwctl driver for the AMD/Pensando PDS devices. This sets up a simple auxiliary_bus driver that registers with fwctl subsystem. It expects that a pds_core device has set up the auxiliary_device pds_core.fwctl Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/20250320194412.67983-5-shannon.nelson@amd.com Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
2025-03-06fwctl/mlx5: Support for communicating with mlx5 fwSaeed Mahameed
mlx5 FW has a built in security context called UID. Each UID has a set of permissions controlled by the kernel when it is created and every command is tagged by the kernel with a particular UID. In general commands cannot reach objects outside of their UID and commands cannot exceed their UID's permissions. These restrictions are enforced by FW. This mechanism has long been used in RDMA for the devx interface where RDMA will sent commands directly to the FW and the UID limitations restrict those commands to a ib_device/verbs security domain. For instance commands that would effect other VFs, or global device resources. The model is suitable for unprivileged userspace to operate the RDMA functionality. The UID has been extended with a "tools resources" permission which allows additional commands and sub-commands that are intended to match with the scope limitations set in FWCTL. This is an alternative design to the "command intent log" where the FW does the enforcement rather than having the FW report the enforcement the kernel should do. Consistent with the fwctl definitions the "tools resources" security context is limited to the FWCTL_RPC_CONFIGURATION, FWCTL_RPC_DEBUG_READ_ONLY, FWCTL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE, and FWCTL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE_FULL security scopes. Like RDMA devx, each opened fwctl file descriptor will get a unique UID associated with each file descriptor. The fwctl driver is kept simple and we reject commands that can create objects as the UID mechanism relies on the kernel to track and destroy objects prior to detroying the UID. Filtering into fwctl sub scopes is done inside the driver with a switch statement. This substantially limits what is possible to primarily query functions ad a few limited set operations. mlx5 already has a robust infrastructure for delivering RPC messages to fw. Trivially connect fwctl's RPC mechanism to mlx5_cmd_do(). Enforce the User Context ID in every RPC header accepted from the FD so the FW knows the security context of the issuing ID. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/7-v5-642aa0c94070+4447f-fwctl_jgg@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
2025-03-06fwctl: Add basic structure for a class subsystem with a cdevJason Gunthorpe
Create the class, character device and functions for a fwctl driver to un/register to the subsystem. A typical fwctl driver has a sysfs presence like: $ ls -l /dev/fwctl/fwctl0 crw------- 1 root root 250, 0 Apr 25 19:16 /dev/fwctl/fwctl0 $ ls /sys/class/fwctl/fwctl0 dev device power subsystem uevent $ ls /sys/class/fwctl/fwctl0/device/infiniband/ ibp0s10f0 $ ls /sys/class/infiniband/ibp0s10f0/device/fwctl/ fwctl0/ $ ls /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/fwctl/fwctl0 dev device power subsystem uevent Which allows userspace to link all the multi-subsystem driver components together and learn the subsystem specific names for the device's components. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/1-v5-642aa0c94070+4447f-fwctl_jgg@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Tested-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>