netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] macsec: double accounting of dropped rx/tx packets

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 11:55:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     girish.moodalbail@...cle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sd@...asysnail.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] macsec: double accounting of dropped rx/tx
 packets

From: Girish Moodalbail <girish.moodalbail@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 15:25:44 -0700

> The macsec implementation shouldn't account for rx/tx packets that are
> dropped in the netdev framework. The netdev framework itself accounts
> for such packets by atomically updating struct net_device`rx_dropped and
> struct net_device`tx_dropped fields. Later on when the stats for macsec
> link is retrieved, the packets dropped in netdev framework will be
> included in dev_get_stats() after calling macsec.c`macsec_get_stats64()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Girish Moodalbail <girish.moodalbail@...cle.com>

This looks correct to me.

Applied, thank you.