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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/hfi1: Do not warn on lid conversions for OPA
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:43:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171129184324.GF4011@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171129125948.31113.59826.stgit@phlsvslse11.ph.intel.com>

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 07:59:49AM -0500, Mike Marciniszyn wrote:
> From: Don Hiatt <don.hiatt@intel.com>
> 
> Upstream commit 4988be5813ff2afdc0d8bfa315ef34a577d3efbf.
> 
> On OPA devices opa_local_smp_check will receive 32Bit LIDs when the LID
> is Extended. In such cases, it is okay to lose the upper 16 bits of the
> LID as this information is obtained elsewhere. Do not issue a warning
> when calling ib_lid_cpu16() in this case by masking out the upper 16Bits.

The concept for the 32 bit lids was to keep it 32 bit inside the
kernel, ingress_key_table_fail puts the lid into
err_info_constraint.slid which is already 32 bits, so this cannot be
the right place for this.

These truncations should only appear at the uapi boundary.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-29 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-29 12:59 [PATCH 1/2] IB/core: Do not warn on lid conversions for OPA Mike Marciniszyn
2017-11-29 12:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] IB/hfi1: " Mike Marciniszyn
2017-11-29 18:43   ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2017-12-04 12:13     ` Greg KH
2017-12-04 17:28       ` Don Hiatt
2017-11-29 18:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] IB/core: " Parav Pandit
2017-12-04 12:11   ` Greg KH
2017-12-04 17:28     ` Don Hiatt
2017-12-05  4:04       ` Parav Pandit

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