From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: amirv@mellanox.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ogerlitz@mellanox.com,
yevgenyp@mellanox.com, jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_core: Fix kernel Oops (mem corruption) when working with more than 80 VFs
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:38:16 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150202.193816.1901787169522382523.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422883122-29020-1-git-send-email-amirv@mellanox.com>
From: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:18:42 +0200
> From: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
>
> Commit de966c592802 (net/mlx4_core: Support more than 64 VFs) was meant to
> allow up to 126 VFs. However, due to leaving MLX4_MFUNC_MAX too low, using
> more than 80 VFs resulted in memory corruptions (and Oopses) when more than
> 80 VFs were requested. In addition, the number of slaves was left too high.
>
> This commit fixes these issues.
>
> Fixes: de966c592802 ("net/mlx4_core: Support more than 64 VFs")
> Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
> Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Applied, thanks.
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2015-02-02 13:18 [PATCH net] net/mlx4_core: Fix kernel Oops (mem corruption) when working with more than 80 VFs Amir Vadai
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