netdev - Re: [PATCH rdma-next] RDMA: Allow ib_client's to fail when add() is called

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Message-Id: <8ee742d7-952b-b521-d05c-17de601f6e32@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:39:43 +0200
From:   Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Karsten Graul <kgraul@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Niranjana Vishwanathapura <niranjana.vishwanathapura@...el.com>,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>,
        target-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next] RDMA: Allow ib_client's to fail when add() is
 called



On 4/21/20 7:24 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
> 
> When a client is added it isn't allowed to fail, but all the client's have
> various failure paths within their add routines.
> 
> This creates the very fringe condition where the client was added, failed
> during add and didn't set the client_data. The core code will then still
> call other client_data centric ops like remove(), rename(), get_nl_info(),
> and get_net_dev_by_params() with NULL client_data - which is confusing and
> unexpected.
> 
> If the add() callback fails, then do not call any more client ops for the
> device, even remove.
> 
> Remove all the now redundant checks for NULL client_data in ops callbacks.
> 
> Update all the add() callbacks to return error codes
> appropriately. EOPNOTSUPP is used for cases where the ULP does not support
> the ib_device - eg because it only works with IB.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c                  | 24 ++++++++++--------
>  drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c                 | 23 +++++++++--------
>  drivers/infiniband/core/device.c              | 16 ++++++++++--
>  drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c                 | 17 ++++++++++---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/multicast.c           | 12 ++++-----
>  drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c            | 22 ++++++++--------
>  drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c            | 22 ++++++++--------
>  drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c         | 24 +++++++++---------
>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c     | 15 ++++-------
>  .../infiniband/ulp/opa_vnic/opa_vnic_vema.c   | 12 ++++-----
>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c           | 21 ++++++++--------
>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c         | 25 ++++++++-----------
>  include/rdma/ib_verbs.h                       |  2 +-
>  net/rds/ib.c                                  | 21 ++++++++++------
>  net/smc/smc_ib.c                              | 10 +++-----
>  15 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 124 deletions(-)
> 

For the net/smc part:
Acked-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>