Re: [PATCH net, 1/3] net: mana: Fix TX CQE error handling

Simon Horman
2023-09-29T05:50:48Z

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 07:47:57AM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 06:31:45PM -0700, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> > For an unknown TX CQE error type (probably from a newer hardware),
> > still free the SKB, update the queue tail, etc., otherwise the
> > accounting will be wrong.
> >
> > Also, TX errors can be triggered by injecting corrupted packets, so
> > replace the WARN_ONCE to ratelimited error logging, because we don't
> > need stack trace here.
> >
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Fixes: ca9c54d2d6a5 ("net: mana: Add a driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA)")
> > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

Sorry, one latent question.

The patch replaces WARN_ONCE with a net_ratelimit()'d netdev_err().
But I do wonder if, as a fix, netdev_err_once() would be more appropriate.