netdev - [PATCH ethtool] ethtool: Fix handling of zero weights for flow hash indirection

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Date:	Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:38:03 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: [PATCH ethtool] ethtool: Fix handling of zero weights for flow
 hash indirection

The loop to generate an indirection table from a list of weights never
advances by more than one weight at a time.  Thus, if there is a 0
in the list (except at the end) the corresponding RX ring will be
assigned 1 hash bucket rather than 0.  Change 'if' to 'while'.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
---
Please include this in 2.6.35 if you haven't finalised it yet.

Ben.

 ethtool.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ethtool.c b/ethtool.c
index 0f7dec6..66b5c07 100644
--- a/ethtool.c
+++ b/ethtool.c
@@ -2977,7 +2977,7 @@ static int do_srxfhindir(int fd, struct ifreq *ifr)
 
 		j = -1;
 		for (i = 0; i < indir->size; i++) {
-			if (i >= indir->size * partial / sum) {
+			while (i >= indir->size * partial / sum) {
 				j += 1;
 				weight = get_u32(rxfhindir_weight[j], 0);
 				partial += weight;
-- 
1.6.2.5

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

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