netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] nfp: fix fw dump handling of absolute rtsym size

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 10:30:52 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        carl.heymann@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] nfp: fix fw dump handling of absolute rtsym
 size

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:29:43 -0800

> From: Carl Heymann <carl.heymann@...ronome.com>
> 
> Fix bug that causes _absolute_ rtsym sizes of > 8 bytes (as per symbol
> table) to result in incorrect space used during a TLV-based debug dump.
> 
> Detail: The size calculation stage calculates the correct size (size of
> the rtsym address field == 8), while the dump uses the size in the table
> to calculate the TLV size to reserve. Symbols with size <= 8 are handled
> OK due to aligning sizes to 8, but including any absolute symbol with
> listed size > 8 leads to an ENOSPC error during the dump.
> 
> Fixes: da762863edd9 ("nfp: fix absolute rtsym handling in debug dump")
> Signed-off-by: Carl Heymann <carl.heymann@...ronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>

Applied, thanks.