On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:56:40 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 71844fac1ed459024dd2a448d63d5b28b8c87daa ]
>
> Up until now we never needed to keep a networking locks around
> representors accesses, we only accessed them when device was
> reconfigured (under nfp pf->lock) or on fast path (under RCU).
> Now we want to be able to iterate over all representors during
> notifications, so make sure representor assignment is done
> under RTNL lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: John Hurley <john.hurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Sasha!
There is no need for backporting this unless 51a6588e8c08 ("nfp: add
offloads on representors") is also back ported (which is a feature).
