Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 3 authors, 2023-09-30

RE: [PATCH net, 1/3] net: mana: Fix TX CQE error handling

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Date: 2023-09-29 15:51:59
Also in: bpf, linux-hyperv, linux-rdma, lkml, stable

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Subject: Re: [PATCH net, 1/3] net: mana: Fix TX CQE error handling

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 07:47:57AM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
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On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 06:31:45PM -0700, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
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For an unknown TX CQE error type (probably from a newer hardware),
still free the SKB, update the queue tail, etc., otherwise the
accounting will be wrong.

Also, TX errors can be triggered by injecting corrupted packets, so
replace the WARN_ONCE to ratelimited error logging, because we don't
need stack trace here.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ca9c54d2d6a5 ("net: mana: Add a driver for Microsoft Azure
Network Adapter (MANA)")
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Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Sorry, one latent question.

The patch replaces WARN_ONCE with a net_ratelimit()'d netdev_err().
But I do wonder if, as a fix, netdev_err_once() would be more appropriate.
This error may happen with different CQE error types, so I use netdev_err() 
to display them, and added rate limit.

Thanks
- Haiyang
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