netdev - Re: [patch net-next] lib: objagg: fix handling of object with 0 users when assembling hints

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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:47:07 +0200
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] lib: objagg: fix handling of object with 0
 users when assembling hints

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 03:39:07PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> It is possible that there might be an originally parent object with 0
> direct users that is in hints no longer considered as parent. Then the
> weight of this object is 0 and current code ignores him. That's why the
> total amount of hint objects might be lower than for the original
> objagg and WARN_ON is hit. Fix this be considering 0 weight valid.
> 
> Fixes: 9069a3817d82 ("lib: objagg: implement optimization hints assembly and use hints for object creation")
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>