linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] staging: fsl-dpaa2: ethsw: Add missing netdevice check

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Date:   Sun, 24 Feb 2019 08:17:16 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@....com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "open list:DPAA2 ETHERNET SWITCH DRIVER" 
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] staging: fsl-dpaa2: ethsw: Add missing netdevice
 check

Le 2/23/19 à 12:45 AM, Ioana Ciornei a écrit :
> 
>> Subject: [PATCH net] staging: fsl-dpaa2: ethsw: Add missing netdevice check
>>
>> port_switchdev_event() does not check that the target network device is
>> actually backed by the ethsw driver, this could be problematic in a stacked
>> environment case.
>>
> 
> Just FYI, I sent a patch set containing a similar patch verifying if the netdev is backed by the ethsw:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/6/216
> 
> I sent the entire patch set against the staging tree.

Thank you. BTW do you have any plans for moving this driver out of
staging? It looks pretty good to me to get promoted in tree, provided
that you also have all the dependencies in place etc.
-- 
Florian