netdev - Re: [PATCH net repost] nfp: do not update MTU from BH in flower app

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Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:51:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     simon.horman@...ronome.com
Cc:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net repost] nfp: do not update MTU from BH in flower app

From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:18:20 +0200

> The Flower app may receive a request to update the MTU of a representor
> netdev upon receipt of a control message from the firmware. This requires
> the RTNL lock which needs to be taken outside of the packet processing
> path.
> 
> As a handling of this correctly seems a little to invasive for a fix simply
> skip setting the MTU for now.
> 
> Relevant backtrace:
 ...
> Fixes: 948faa46c05b ("nfp: add support for control messages for flower app")
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>

Applied.