This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx4_en: Call register_netdevice in the proper location
to the 3.14-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-mlx4_en-call-register_netdevice-in-the-proper-location.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Apr 21 23:05:41 CEST 2015
From: Ido Shamay <idos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:18:38 +0200
Subject: net/mlx4_en: Call register_netdevice in the proper location
From: Ido Shamay <idos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit e5eda89d97ec256ba14e7e861387cc0468259c18 ]
Netdevice registration should be performed a the end of the driver
initialization flow. If we don't do that, after calling register_netdevice,
device callbacks may be issued by higher layers of the stack before
final configuration of the device is done.
For example (VXLAN configuration race), mlx4_SET_PORT_VXLAN was issued
after the register_netdev command. System network scripts may configure
the interface (UP) right after the registration, which also attach
unicast VXLAN steering rule, before mlx4_SET_PORT_VXLAN was called,
causing the firmware to fail the rule attachment.
Fixes: 837052d0ccc5 ("net/mlx4_en: Add netdev support for TCP/IP offloads of vxlan tunneling")
Signed-off-by: Ido Shamay <idos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -2497,13 +2497,6 @@ int mlx4_en_init_netdev(struct mlx4_en_d
netif_carrier_off(dev);
mlx4_en_set_default_moderation(priv);
- err = register_netdev(dev);
- if (err) {
- en_err(priv, "Netdev registration failed for port %d\n", port);
- goto out;
- }
- priv->registered = 1;
-
en_warn(priv, "Using %d TX rings\n", prof->tx_ring_num);
en_warn(priv, "Using %d RX rings\n", prof->rx_ring_num);
@@ -2543,6 +2536,14 @@ int mlx4_en_init_netdev(struct mlx4_en_d
queue_delayed_work(mdev->workqueue, &priv->service_task,
SERVICE_TASK_DELAY);
+ err = register_netdev(dev);
+ if (err) {
+ en_err(priv, "Netdev registration failed for port %d\n", port);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ priv->registered = 1;
+
return 0;
out:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from idos@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/net-mlx4_en-call-register_netdevice-in-the-proper-location.patch
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