netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: don't lose features in netdev_add_tso

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Date:	Tue, 17 May 2016 14:10:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dmichail@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: don't lose features in netdev_add_tso_features()

From: Dimitris Michailidis <dmichail@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 15:33:35 -0700

> The goal of netdev_add_tso_features() is to enable all TSO features but
> it unintentionally loses NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL features. This is because
> the netdev_increment_features() it calls clears any NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL
> bits that aren't included in the incremental features and none of them
> are included in NETIF_F_ALL_TSO. The behavior can be seen by enabling
> tx-nocache-copy on the slaves and noticing the feature remains off at
> the master.
> 
> Fix this by including NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL in the incremental features.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Platt <dplatt@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dimitris Michailidis <dmichail@...gle.com>

This doesn't look right to me at all.

The second argument to netdev_increment_features, 'one', clearly
states that all it is supposed to do is handle a new device being
added which has the features mentioned in 'one'.  It makes no sense to
arbitrarily add ALL_FOR_ALL in there, and if it is legitimate, why
doesn't every other call site of netdev_increment_features have this
same problem?

If netdev_increment_features is doing something different either it's
documentation is wrong or it's implementation is losing ALL_FOR_ALL
bits erroneously.