Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: Explicitly initialize reference count to 0

[Alexander Duyck]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 2:42 PM Bowers, AndrewX <andrewx.bowers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Chuhong Yuan
> > Sent: Friday, August 2, 2019 3:55 AM
> > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@xxxxxxxxx>; linux-
> > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; intel-wired-lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; David S . Miller
> > <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: Explicitly initialize reference
> > count to 0
> >
> > The driver does not explicitly call atomic_set to initialize refcount to 0.
> > Add the call so that it will be more straight forward to convert refcount from
> > atomic_t to refcount_t.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fcoe.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@xxxxxxxxx>

NAK. This patch is badly broken. We should not be resetting the fcoe
refcnt in ixgbe_setup_fcoe_ddp_resources.