netdev - Re: [patch net] mlxsw: spectrum_switchdev: Check success of FDB add operation

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Date:   Sun, 04 Mar 2018 18:13:16 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com, shalomt@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net] mlxsw: spectrum_switchdev: Check success of FDB
 add operation

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Thu,  1 Mar 2018 11:37:05 +0100

> From: Shalom Toledo <shalomt@...lanox.com>
> 
> Until now, we assumed that in case of error when adding FDB entries, the
> write operation will fail, but this is not the case. Instead, we need to
> check that the number of entries reported in the response is equal to
> the number of entries specified in the request.
> 
> Fixes: 56ade8fe3fe1 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Add initial support for Spectrum ASIC")
> Reported-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shalom Toledo <shalomt@...lanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.