Re: [PATCH 6/7] [NETDEV]: tehuti Fix possible causing oops ofnet_rx_action

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Dec 12 2007 - 10:18:50 EST


From: "Joonwoo Park" <joonwpark81@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:01:27 +0900

> @@ -305,6 +305,8 @@ static int bdx_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
>
> netif_rx_complete(dev, napi);
> bdx_enable_interrupts(priv);
> + if (unlikely(work_done == napi->weight))
> + return work_done - 1;
> }
> return work_done;
> }

Any time your trying to make a caller "happy" by adjusting
a return value forcefully, it's a hack.

And I stated this in another reply about this issue.

Please do not fix the problem this way.

The correct way to fix this is, if we did process a full
"weight" or work, we should not netif_rx_complete() and
we should not re-enable chip interrupts.

Instead we should return the true "work_done" value and
allow the caller to thus poll us one more time.
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