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Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:40:20 +0000
From:   Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 17/22] hv_netvsc: fix return type of
 ndo_start_xmit function



> -----Original Message-----
> From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2018 8:33 AM
> To: davem@...emloft.net; dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no;
> wg@...ndegger.com; mkl@...gutronix.de; michal.simek@...inx.com;
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> t.sailer@...mni.ethz.ch; jreuter@...na.de; KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>;
> Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>; wei.liu2@...rix.com;
> paul.durrant@...rix.com; arvid.brodin@...en.se; pshelar@....org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-
> can@...r.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org; linuxppc-
> dev@...ts.ozlabs.org; linux-mips@...ux-mips.org; linux-omap@...r.kernel.org;
> linux-hams@...r.kernel.org; devel@...uxdriverproject.org; linux-
> usb@...r.kernel.org; xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org; dev@...nvswitch.org;
> YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> Subject: [PATCH net-next 17/22] hv_netvsc: fix return type of ndo_start_xmit
> function
> 
> The method ndo_start_xmit() is defined as returning an 'netdev_tx_t', which is
> a typedef for an enum type, so make sure the implementation in this driver has
> returns 'netdev_tx_t' value, and change the function return type to netdev_tx_t.
> 
> Found by coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 10 +++++++---
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> index 3af6d8d..056c472 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> @@ -511,7 +511,8 @@ static int netvsc_vf_xmit(struct net_device *net, struct
> net_device *vf_netdev,
>  	return rc;
>  }
> 
> -static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
> +static netdev_tx_t
> +netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
>  {
>  	struct net_device_context *net_device_ctx = netdev_priv(net);
>  	struct hv_netvsc_packet *packet = NULL; @@ -528,8 +529,11 @@
> static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
>  	 */
>  	vf_netdev = rcu_dereference_bh(net_device_ctx->vf_netdev);
>  	if (vf_netdev && netif_running(vf_netdev) &&
> -	    !netpoll_tx_running(net))
> -		return netvsc_vf_xmit(net, vf_netdev, skb);
> +	    !netpoll_tx_running(net)) {
> +		ret = netvsc_vf_xmit(net, vf_netdev, skb);
> +		if (ret)
> +			return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;

For error case, please just return NETDEV_TX_OK. We are not sure if the 
error can go away after retrying, returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY may cause 
infinite retry from the upper layer.

Thanks,
- Haiyang

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