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

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 8/23/2017 10:44 AM, Nélio Laranjeiro wrote:
> 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>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.