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Message-Id: <20170124.134502.48158963519122839.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:45:02 -0500 (EST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: jiri@...nulli.us
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com, eladr@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Correctly reallocate
adjacency entries
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:11:42 +0100
> From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
>
> mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group_mac_update() is called in one of two cases:
>
> 1) When the MAC of a nexthop needs to be updated
> 2) When the size of a nexthop group has changed
>
> In the second case the adjacency entries for the nexthop group need to
> be reallocated from the adjacency table. In this case we must write to
> the entries the MAC addresses of all the nexthops that should be
> offloaded and not only those whose MAC changed. Otherwise, these entries
> would be filled with garbage data, resulting in packet loss.
>
> Fixes: a7ff87acd995 ("mlxsw: spectrum_router: Implement next-hop routing")
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
Applied.
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