From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
To: Mauro Rodrigues <maurosr@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>,
intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-intel-i40e] question about assignment overwrite
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:34:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1496867699.2192.2.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170607195526.GA26867@korriban>
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On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 16:55 -0300, Mauro Rodrigues wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:49:11PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 15:48 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > > While looking into Coverity ID 1408956 I ran into the following
> > > piece
> > > of code at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c:8807:
> > >
> > > 8807 if (pf->hw.mac.type == I40E_MAC_X722) {
> > > 8808 pf->flags |= I40E_FLAG_RSS_AQ_CAPABLE
> > > 8809 | I40E_FLAG_128_QP_RSS_CAPABLE
> > > 8810 | I40E_FLAG_HW_ATR_EVICT_CAPABLE
> > > 8811 | I40E_FLAG_OUTER_UDP_CSUM_CAPABLE
> > > 8812 | I40E_FLAG_WB_ON_ITR_CAPABLE
> > > 8813 |
> > > I40E_FLAG_MULTIPLE_TCP_UDP_RSS_PCTYPE
> > > 8814 | I40E_FLAG_NO_PCI_LINK_CHECK
> > > 8815 | I40E_FLAG_USE_SET_LLDP_MIB
> > > 8816 | I40E_FLAG_GENEVE_OFFLOAD_CAPABLE
> > > 8817 | I40E_FLAG_PTP_L4_CAPABLE
> > > 8818 | I40E_FLAG_WOL_MC_MAGIC_PKT_WAKE;
> > > 8819 } else if ((pf->hw.aq.api_maj_ver > 1) ||
> > > 8820 ((pf->hw.aq.api_maj_ver == 1) &&
> > > 8821 (pf->hw.aq.api_min_ver > 4))) {
> > > 8822 /* Supported in FW API version higher than 1.4 */
> > > 8823 pf->flags |= I40E_FLAG_GENEVE_OFFLOAD_CAPABLE;
> > > 8824 pf->flags = I40E_FLAG_HW_ATR_EVICT_CAPABLE;
> > > 8825 } else {
> > > 8826 pf->flags = I40E_FLAG_HW_ATR_EVICT_CAPABLE;
> > > 8827 }
> > >
> > > The issue here is that the assignment at line 8823 is overwritten
> > > by
> > > the code at line 8824.
> > >
> > > I'm suspicious that line 8824 should be remove and a patch like the
> > > following can be applied:
> > >
> > > index d5c9c9e..48ffa73 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
> > > @@ -8821,7 +8821,6 @@ static int i40e_sw_init(struct i40e_pf *pf)
> > > (pf->hw.aq.api_min_ver > 4))) {
> > > /* Supported in FW API version higher than 1.4 */
> > > pf->flags |= I40E_FLAG_GENEVE_OFFLOAD_CAPABLE;
> > > - pf->flags = I40E_FLAG_HW_ATR_EVICT_CAPABLE;
> > > } else {
> > > pf->flags = I40E_FLAG_HW_ATR_EVICT_CAPABLE;
> > > }
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > This issue is already fixed in my dev-queue branch on my next-queue
> > tree.
>
> Hi Jeff, are you planning to push this fix into net branch anytime soon?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mauro
The patch that fixed this issue is already in David Miller's net-next tree.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-17 20:48 [net-intel-i40e] question about assignment overwrite Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-05-18 5:49 ` Jeff Kirsher
2017-05-18 17:44 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-06-07 19:55 ` Mauro Rodrigues
2017-06-07 20:34 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
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