[net PATCH] Revert "net: thunderx: Add support for xdp redirect"

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Feb 14 11:24:03 PST 2018


From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:59:22 +0100

> This reverts commit aa136d0c82fcd6af14535853c30e219e02b2692d.
> 
> As I previously[1] pointed out this implementation of XDP_REDIRECT is
> wrong.  XDP_REDIRECT is a facility that must work between different
> NIC drivers.  Another NIC driver can call ndo_xdp_xmit/nicvf_xdp_xmit,
> but your driver patch assumes payload data (at top of page) will
> contain a queue index and a DMA addr, this is not true and worse will
> likely contain garbage.
> 
> Given you have not fixed this in due time (just reached v4.16-rc1),
> the only option I see is a revert.
> 
> [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171211130902.482513d3@redhat.com
> 
> Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham at cavium.com>
> Cc: Christina Jacob <cjacob at caviumnetworks.com>
> Cc: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov at cavium.com>
> Fixes: aa136d0c82fc ("net: thunderx: Add support for xdp redirect")
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer at redhat.com>

Applied, thanks Jesper.



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