netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] nfp: flower: prevent offload if rhashtable insert fails

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Date:   Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:25:25 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     oss-drivers@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        john.hurley@...ronome.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] nfp: flower: prevent offload if rhashtable
 insert fails

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:04:12 -0800

> From: John Hurley <john.hurley@...ronome.com>
> 
> For flow offload adds, if the rhash insert code fails, the flow will still
> have been offloaded but the reference to it in the driver freed.
> 
> Re-order the offload setup calls to ensure that a flow will only be written
> to FW if a kernel reference is held and stored in the rhashtable. Remove
> this hashtable entry if the offload fails.
> 
> Fixes: c01d0efa5136 ("nfp: flower: use rhashtable for flow caching")
> Signed-off-by: John Hurley <john.hurley@...ronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Pieter Jansen van Vuuren <pieter.jansenvanvuuren@...ronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
> ---
> Merge note: there will be a slight merge conflict with net-next
> here:
>  - the first argument of nfp_flower_xmit_flow() changed from 'netdev'
>    to 'app';
>  - we only bump the port offload cnt if (port).
> 
> FWIW the net-next version of the patch can be found at:
> 
>      git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kuba/linux.git
> 
>      17ed95873d51 nfp: flower: prevent offload if rhashtable insert fails
>      d857fc8f472b nfp: flower: release metadata on offload failure
> 
> CC: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> # for linux-next

Applied.