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Message-ID: <5757EEFC.3060709@vmware.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 12:10:04 +0200
From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>
To: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@...are.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <pv-drivers@...are.com>
CC: Jin Heo <heoj@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH net v2] vmxnet3: segCnt can be 1 for LRO
packets
On 06/08/2016 08:13 AM, Shrikrishna Khare wrote:
> The device emulation may send segCnt of 1 for LRO packets.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@...are.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jin Heo <heoj@...are.com>
>
> ---
> v2: fix subject line
> ---
> drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c | 2 +-
> drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
> index db8022a..6f399b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
> @@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@ vmxnet3_rq_rx_complete(struct vmxnet3_rx_queue *rq,
> rcdlro = (struct Vmxnet3_RxCompDescExt *)rcd;
>
> segCnt = rcdlro->segCnt;
> - BUG_ON(segCnt <= 1);
> + BUG_ON(segCnt == 0);
What will the vmxnet3 driver do otherwise if segCnt == 0? Please see below.
> mss = rcdlro->mss;
> if (unlikely(segCnt <= 1))
> segCnt = 0;
Based on this code, it looks like it can handle the case without taking
down the kernel completely, so instead of a
"BUG_ON", would it make sense with a WARN_ON_ONCE() or WARN_ON()?
Thanks,
Thomas
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