APPLIED[I]: [PATCH 0/1][SRU][F][H][I][OEM-5.10][OEM-5.13] e1000e blocks the boot process when it tried to write checksum to its NVM

[Andrea Righi]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 06:37:30PM +0800, AceLan Kao wrote:
> From: "Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan)" <acelan.kao at canonical.com>
> 
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1936998
> 
> [Impact]
> While probing e1000e, it checks its NVM checksum, and write correct
> checksum back if the checksum is not correct. But for recent GBE update
> for security, its NVM could be written once for MAC address during
> production, so write checksum during driver probing is not allowed and
> block the boot process.
> 
> [Fix]
> Intel provides a fix for it.
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/intel-wired-lan/patch/20210718041031.3619696-1-sasha.neftin@intel.com/
> 
> [Test]
> Verified on a Dell machine which has wrong NVM checksum.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> From what Intel told us, the checksum isn't correct is not a big deal,
> we could ignore it and it won't lead to any issues.

Applied to impish:linux 5.13.

-Andrea