[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix route Netlink message overflow

[Shahaf Shuler]

Tuesday, July 24, 2018 9:50 AM, Nelio Laranjeiro:
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix route Netlink message overflow
> 
> Route Netlink message socket is wrongly initialised by registering to the
> route link group.  This causes the socket to receive all link message related to
> routes whereas the PMD do not expect to receive such information.  In some
> situation it ends by filling the socket at a point that any new message cannot
> be exchanged.
> As the PMD is not expected to process such broadcast messages, the
> parameter in the nl_group in the function is also remove.
> 
> Fixes: ccdcba53a3f4 ("net/mlx5: use Netlink to add/remove MAC addresses")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zijie Pan <zijie.pan at 6wind.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>

Applied to next-net-mlx, thanks.