[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/mlx5: fix probe failure report

[Nélio Laranjeiro]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 03:25:12PM +0300, Matan Azrad wrote:
> The corrupted code doesn't return error when probe function
> fails due to error in device mac address getting.
> By this way, the probe function may return success even if the
> ETH dev is not allocated.
> 
> Hence, the probe caller, for example failsafe PMD, fails when it
> tries to get ETH dev after the device was plugged out while mlx5
> was probing it.
> 
> The fix adds error report to the probe caller when priv_get_mac fails
> and in all other failure options which are missing it.
> 
> By this way, it prevents the unexpected behavior to miss ETH device
> after the device was probed successfully.
> 
> This bug was already present in the original code taken from mlx4.
> 
> Fixes: 771fa900b73a ("mlx5: introduce new driver for Mellanox ConnectX-4 adapters")
> Fixes: 1371f4df16bc ("mlx5: check port is configured as ethernet device")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com>

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Nélio Laranjeiro
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