[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix Netlink port name attribute padding

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2021 4:56 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan at nvidia.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix Netlink port name attribute padding
> 
> On some kernels the string attributes within Netlink reply messages might be
> not padded with zeroes (in cases when string length is aligned with 4-byte
> boundary).
> This caused wrong physical port names recognition and
> mlx5 PMD load failures.
> 
> Fixes: 30a86157f6d5 ("net/mlx5: support PF representor")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
> ---
Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh