netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] qed: Fix shmem structure inconsistency between driver and the mfw.

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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:40:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sudarsana.kalluru@...ium.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Michal.Kalderon@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] qed: Fix shmem structure inconsistency between
 driver and the mfw.

From: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <sudarsana.kalluru@...ium.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 04:12:10 -0700

> The structure shared between driver and the management FW (mfw) differ in
> sizes. This would lead to issues when driver try to access the structure
> members which are not-aligned with the mfw copy e.g., data_ptr usage in the
> case of mfw_tlv request.
> Align the driver structure with mfw copy, add reserved field(s) to driver
> structure for the members not used by the driver.
> 
> Fixes: dd006921d ("qed: Add MFW interfaces for TLV request support.)
> Signed-off-by: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@...ium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kalderon <Michal.Kalderon@...ium.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

In the future please use 12 digits of SHA1_ID for Fixes tags.  I fixed
it up for you this time.

Thanks.