netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_core: Fix kernel Oops (mem corruption) when working with more than 80 VFs

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Message-Id: <20150202.193816.1901787169522382523.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:38:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amirv@...lanox.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ogerlitz@...lanox.com,
	yevgenyp@...lanox.com, jackm@....mellanox.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_core: Fix kernel Oops (mem corruption)
 when working with more than 80 VFs

From: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2015 15:18:42 +0200

> From: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@....mellanox.co.il>
> 
> Commit de966c592802 (net/mlx4_core: Support more than 64 VFs) was meant to
> allow up to 126 VFs.  However, due to leaving MLX4_MFUNC_MAX too low, using
> more than 80 VFs resulted in memory corruptions (and Oopses) when more than
> 80 VFs were requested. In addition, the number of slaves was left too high.
> 
> This commit fixes these issues.
> 
> Fixes: de966c592802 ("net/mlx4_core: Support more than 64 VFs")
> Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@....mellanox.co.il>
> Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>

Applied, thanks.
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