netdev - Re: [PATCH net] qede: Fix statistics' strings for Tx/Rx queues

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:34:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] qede: Fix statistics' strings for Tx/Rx queues

From: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:25:42 +0200

> When an interface is configured to use Tx/Rx-only queues,
> the length of the statistics would be shortened to accomodate only the
> statistics required per-each queue, and the values would be provided
> accordingly.
> However, the strings provided would still contain both Tx and Rx strings
> for each one of the queues [regardless of its configuration], which might
> lead to out-of-bound access when filling the buffers as well as incorrect
> statistics presented.
> 
> Fixes: 9a4d7e86acf3 ("qede: Add support for Tx/Rx-only queues.")
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>

Applied, thanks.