Re: [PATCH net v5 0/6] Fix a variety of TPA bugs

[Paolo Abeni]

On 9/2/26 3:56 AM, Joe Damato wrote:
> I am sending this series as an extension to my v4 [1] which was just 1 patch.
> 
> Note that patch 5 of this series can now cause the device to fail closed if
> memory is tight; bnxt_init_nic propagates an error that was previously
> swallowed and fails closed instead of succeeding in a degraded state. If the
> maintainers want the device to come up with a partially populated rx_tpa[],
> then patch 5 can be dropped and this series can still be applied
> and will otherwise work as intended.
> 
> This series addresses a variety of bugs orbiting the TPA code in the bnxt
> driver that Sashiko (or Clashiko or whatever) pointed out and the series ends
> with the patch from the v4 [1].
> 
> A lot of the noise generated by the AIs while reviewing my v4 are unrelated
> bugs with different fixes tags that, IMHO, distract a bit from the crash at
> boot that is currently occurring with Thor2 hardware on recent kernels.
> 
> That said, I've tried to wrangle this series together which I hope will solve
> most of the important bugs the AIs are feeling something about.
> 
> I do not know what other rabbit holes the AIs will find when I submit this
> series, but if there is some reasonable stop-gap that we can get applied to
> fix the crashes on Thor2 (while I iterate on the rest of the bugs at the
> pleasure of the AIs) that would be excellent.
> 
> I boot tested this on a Thor1 and a Thor2 machine and there were no crashes at
> boot.
Waiting for Michael's ack here. Note that I think that the AI report on
patch 5 is not a blocker.

/P