[PATCH 4.19 19/24] Revert "be2net: remove desc field from be_eq_obj"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Nov 02 2018 - 14:38:04 EST


4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 5ef79151c2fbc401cf38325e9a32e77b9fc593ae ]

The mentioned commit needs to be reverted because we cannot pass
string allocated on stack to request_irq(). This function stores
uses this pointer for later use (e.g. /proc/interrupts) so we need
to keep this string persistently.

Fixes: d6d9704af8f4 ("be2net: remove desc field from be_eq_obj")
Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 6 ++----
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ static inline void queue_tail_inc(struct

struct be_eq_obj {
struct be_queue_info q;
+ char desc[32];

struct be_adapter *adapter;
struct napi_struct napi;
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
@@ -3488,11 +3488,9 @@ static int be_msix_register(struct be_ad
int status, i, vec;

for_all_evt_queues(adapter, eqo, i) {
- char irq_name[IFNAMSIZ+4];
-
- snprintf(irq_name, sizeof(irq_name), "%s-q%d", netdev->name, i);
+ sprintf(eqo->desc, "%s-q%d", netdev->name, i);
vec = be_msix_vec_get(adapter, eqo);
- status = request_irq(vec, be_msix, 0, irq_name, eqo);
+ status = request_irq(vec, be_msix, 0, eqo->desc, eqo);
if (status)
goto err_msix;