netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sfc: limit the number of receive queues

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Message-Id: <20170417.110135.365969203734648464.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:01:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     bkenward@...arflare.com
Cc:     davem@...emloft.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sfc: limit the number of receive queues

From: Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 17:06:52 +0100

> The number of rx queues is determined by the rss_cpus parameter
> or the cpu topology. If that is higher than EFX_MAX_RX_QUEUES the
> driver can corrupt state.
> 
> Fixes: 8ceee660aacb ("New driver "sfc" for Solarstorm SFC4000 controller.")
> Signed-off-by: Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>

Applied, thank you.