On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 09:26:12AM +0100, Wenjia Zhang wrote:
> The SMC-R variant of the SMC protocol used direct call to function
> ib_device_ops.get_netdev() to lookup netdev. As we used mlx5 device
> driver to run SMC-R, it failed to find a device, because in mlx5_ib the
> internal net device management for retrieving net devices was replaced
> by a common interface ib_device_get_netdev() in commit 8d159eb2117b
> ("RDMA/mlx5: Use IB set_netdev and get_netdev functions").
>
> Since such direct accesses to the internal net device management is not
> recommended at all, update the SMC-R code to use proper API
> ib_device_get_netdev().
>
> Fixes: 54903572c23c ("net/smc: allow pnetid-less configuration")
> Reported-by: Aswin K <aswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Dust Li <dust.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Wen Gu <guwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: D. Wythe <alibuda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/smc/smc_ib.c | 8 ++------
> net/smc/smc_pnet.c | 4 +---
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
