Re: [PATCH v3] hv_netvsc: Allocate rx indirection table size dynamically

From: Christophe JAILLET
Date: Mon May 29 2023 - 10:25:23 EST


Le 29/05/2023 à 15:30, Shradha Gupta a écrit :
Thanks for the comment Christophe.
On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 02:49:15PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
Le 26/05/2023 ?? 08:02, Shradha Gupta a ??crit??:
Allocate the size of rx indirection table dynamically in netvsc
>from the value of size provided by OID_GEN_RECEIVE_SCALE_CAPABILITIES
query instead of using a constant value of ITAB_NUM.

Signed-off-by: Shradha Gupta <shradhagupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-on: Ubuntu22 (azure VM, SKU size: Standard_F72s_v2)
Testcases:
1. ethtool -x eth0 output
2. LISA testcase:PERF-NETWORK-TCP-THROUGHPUT-MULTICONNECTION-NTTTCP-Synthetic
3. LISA testcase:PERF-NETWORK-TCP-THROUGHPUT-MULTICONNECTION-NTTTCP-SRIOV

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@@ -1596,11 +1608,18 @@ void rndis_filter_device_remove(struct hv_device *dev,
struct netvsc_device *net_dev)
{
struct rndis_device *rndis_dev = net_dev->extension;
+ struct net_device *net = hv_get_drvdata(dev);
+ struct net_device_context *ndc = netdev_priv(net);
/* Halt and release the rndis device */
rndis_filter_halt_device(net_dev, rndis_dev);
netvsc_device_remove(dev);
+
+ ndc->rx_table_sz = 0;
+ kfree(ndc->rx_table);
+ ndc->rx_table = NULL;
+

Nit: useless empty NL
This is to prevent any potential double free, or accessing freed memory, etc.
As requested by Haiyang in v2 patch

Setting ndc->rx_table to NULL is fine, but there is a useless *newline* (NL) just after.
If you have to send a v4, you can save a line of code.

CJ


}
int rndis_filter_open(struct netvsc_device *nvdev)