This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5e: Use rx_missed_errors instead of rx_dropped for reporting buffer exhaustion to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mlx5e-use-rx_missed_errors-instead-of-rx_dropped.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ed00b170467b65d229841a3574f2b383c85912c0 Author: Carolina Jubran <cjubran@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 22 22:26:58 2024 +0300 net/mlx5e: Use rx_missed_errors instead of rx_dropped for reporting buffer exhaustion [ Upstream commit 5c74195d5dd977e97556e6fa76909b831c241230 ] Previously, the driver incorrectly used rx_dropped to report device buffer exhaustion. According to the documentation, rx_dropped should not be used to count packets dropped due to buffer exhaustion, which is the purpose of rx_missed_errors. Use rx_missed_errors as intended for counting packets dropped due to buffer exhaustion. Fixes: 269e6b3af3bf ("net/mlx5e: Report additional error statistics in get stats ndo") Signed-off-by: Carolina Jubran <cjubran@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c index 35630b538c826..facbbd3fac66a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c @@ -3667,7 +3667,7 @@ mlx5e_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats) mlx5e_fold_sw_stats64(priv, stats); } - stats->rx_dropped = priv->stats.qcnt.rx_out_of_buffer; + stats->rx_missed_errors = priv->stats.qcnt.rx_out_of_buffer; stats->rx_length_errors = PPORT_802_3_GET(pstats, a_in_range_length_errors) +