Re: [Pv-drivers] vmxnet3 driver broken since 3.0?

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:09:33PM -0500, chetan loke wrote:
> > From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Alessandro Salvatori
> > Sent: December 12, 2011 2:55 AM
> > To: Zbigniew Luszpinski
> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: vmxnet3 driver broken since 3.0?
> >
> > I guess this is the change that was introduced in 3.0 and that breaks vmxnet3:
> >
> > commit 55513fb4281464e97aa1ff2b9c906ca5aed917c5
> > Author: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
> > Date:   Mon Oct 18 17:55:58 2010 +0000
> >
> >    net: fail alloc_netdev_mq if queue count < 1
> >
> >    In alloc_netdev_mq fail if requested queue_count < 1.
> >
> >    Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
> >    Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> >    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> >
> > diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> > index 04972a4..f44d29a 100644
> > --- a/net/core/dev.c
> > +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> > @@ -5511,6 +5511,12 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mq(int
> > sizeof_priv, const char *name,
> >
> >        BUG_ON(strlen(name) >= sizeof(dev->name));
> >
> > +       if (queue_count < 1) {
> > +               pr_err("alloc_netdev: Unable to allocate device "
> > +                      "with zero queues.\n");
> > +               return NULL;
> > +       }
> > +
> >        alloc_size = sizeof(struct net_device);
> >        if (sizeof_priv) {
> >                /* ensure 32-byte alignment of private area */
> >
> > thanks!
> > -Alessandro-
> 

Hmm, apparently patch from https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/16/387 is not
in mailine yet... I am going to forward it to Linus/Andrew.

Thanks,
Dmitry