[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/mlx4: fix probe failure report

Yuanhan Liu yliu at fridaylinux.org
Wed Aug 16 10:15:41 CEST 2017


On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:53:54AM +0300, Matan Azrad wrote:
> [ backported from upstream commit
> 8d0f80167d43949bd24374bcf294a149246dfd1c ]

Applied to dpdk-stable/16.11.

Thank you!

	--yliu

> 
> 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 mlx4
> 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.
> 
> Fixes: 7fae69eeff13 ("mlx4: new poll mode driver")
> Fixes: 7b0661539229 ("mlx4: check if port is configured for ethernet")
> Fixes: fec3608673e6 ("mlx4: query netdevice to get initial MAC address")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c
> index f682413..4a03d34 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c
> @@ -5625,8 +5625,10 @@ mlx4_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv, struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev)
>  	ibv_dev = list[i];
>  
>  	DEBUG("device opened");
> -	if (ibv_query_device(attr_ctx, &device_attr))
> +	if (ibv_query_device(attr_ctx, &device_attr)) {
> +		err = EINVAL;
>  		goto error;
> +	}
>  	INFO("%u port(s) detected", device_attr.phys_port_cnt);
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < device_attr.phys_port_cnt; i++) {
> @@ -5652,19 +5654,23 @@ mlx4_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv, struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev)
>  		DEBUG("using port %u (%08" PRIx32 ")", port, test);
>  
>  		ctx = ibv_open_device(ibv_dev);
> -		if (ctx == NULL)
> +		if (ctx == NULL) {
> +			err = ENODEV;
>  			goto port_error;
> +		}
>  
>  		/* Check port status. */
>  		err = ibv_query_port(ctx, port, &port_attr);
>  		if (err) {
>  			ERROR("port query failed: %s", strerror(err));
> +			err = ENODEV;
>  			goto port_error;
>  		}
>  
>  		if (port_attr.link_layer != IBV_LINK_LAYER_ETHERNET) {
>  			ERROR("port %d is not configured in Ethernet mode",
>  			      port);
> +			err = EINVAL;
>  			goto port_error;
>  		}
>  
> @@ -5701,6 +5707,7 @@ mlx4_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv, struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev)
>  #ifdef HAVE_EXP_QUERY_DEVICE
>  		if (ibv_exp_query_device(ctx, &exp_device_attr)) {
>  			ERROR("ibv_exp_query_device() failed");
> +			err = ENODEV;
>  			goto port_error;
>  		}
>  #ifdef RSS_SUPPORT
> @@ -5776,6 +5783,7 @@ mlx4_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv, struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev)
>  		if (priv_get_mac(priv, &mac.addr_bytes)) {
>  			ERROR("cannot get MAC address, is mlx4_en loaded?"
>  			      " (errno: %s)", strerror(errno));
> +			err = ENODEV;
>  			goto port_error;
>  		}
>  		INFO("port %u MAC address is %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x",
> -- 
> 2.7.4


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