[PATCH net 0/7] mlx4: Bug fixes and cleanups

Hello Dave,
This is a series of fixes and cleanups for mlx4_core driver,
Most of them related tracking of VF resources.
The fixes solve issues caused when the VF don't close gracefully (FLR for example)

Thanks,
Yevgeny
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 main.c             |    4 +---
 mcg.c              |   38 ++++++++++++++------------------------
 mlx4.h             |    1 -
 port.c             |    2 --
 resource_tracker.c |   21 +++++++++++++--------
 5 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

From: Yevgeny Petrilin <redacted>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:37:09 +0200

This is a series of fixes and cleanups for mlx4_core driver,
Most of them related tracking of VF resources.
The fixes solve issues caused when the VF don't close gracefully (FLR for example)

All applied to net-next, such cleanups are absolutely not appropriate
for the net tree.

Hello Dave,

Some of the patches fix very harmful memory leaks and corruptions.
Could you please apply only these 3 specific patches to the net tree?
They are
	[PATCH net 1/7] mlx4_core: fix buffer overrun
	[PATCH net 2/7] mlx4: fix QP tree trashing
	[PATCH net 7/7] mlx4: add unicast steering entries to resource_tracker



Best regards,
Jenny (Eugenia) Emantayev

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 21:31
To: Yevgeny Petrilin
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Eugenia Emantayev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/7] mlx4: Bug fixes and cleanups

From: Yevgeny Petrilin <redacted>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:37:09 +0200

This is a series of fixes and cleanups for mlx4_core driver,
Most of them related tracking of VF resources.
The fixes solve issues caused when the VF don't close gracefully (FLR for example)

All applied to net-next, such cleanups are absolutely not appropriate
for the net tree.

From: Eugenia Emantayev <redacted>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:00:05 +0000

Some of the patches fix very harmful memory leaks and corruptions.

Then submit the patches properly, don't mix cleanups in there if it
matters so much to you.

quoted

Some of the patches fix very harmful memory leaks and corruptions.

Then submit the patches properly, don't mix cleanups in there if it matters so much to you.

We will split the series in 2 parts, 1 for net and the other for net-next

Yevgeny

Le mercredi 15 février 2012 à 06:54 +0000, Yevgeny Petrilin a écrit :

quoted

quoted

Some of the patches fix very harmful memory leaks and corruptions.

Then submit the patches properly, don't mix cleanups in there if it matters so much to you.

We will split the series in 2 parts, 1 for net and the other for net-next

Yevgeny

Too late, all patches already in net-next

You should re-submit for net tree patches that need to .

From: Yevgeny Petrilin <redacted>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:54:07 +0000

quoted

quoted

Some of the patches fix very harmful memory leaks and corruptions.

Then submit the patches properly, don't mix cleanups in there if it matters so much to you.

We will split the series in 2 parts, 1 for net and the other for net-next

I already applied all of them to net-next.  So submitting any of them
for net-next would be superfluous.