Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] net: fec: correct the counting of XDP sent frames

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Tue May 09 2023 - 03:45:13 EST


On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 09:29:31AM -0500, Shenwei Wang wrote:
> In the current xdp_xmit implementation, if any single frame fails to
> transmit due to insufficient buffer descriptors, the function nevertheless
> reports success in sending all frames. This results in erroneously
> indicating that frames were transmitted when in fact they were dropped.
>
> This patch fixes the issue by ensureing the return value properly
> indicates the actual number of frames successfully transmitted, rather than
> potentially reporting success for all frames when some could not transmit.
>
> Fixes: 6d6b39f180b8 ("net: fec: add initial XDP support")
> Signed-off-by: Gagandeep Singh <g.singh@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> v4:
> - the tx frame shouldn't be returned when error occurs.
> - changed the function return values by using the standard errno.
>
> v3:
> - resend the v2 fix for "net" as the standalone patch.
>
> v2:
> - only keep the bug fix part of codes according to Horatiu's comments.
> - restructure the functions to avoid the forward declaration.
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 14 +++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

<...>

> - for (i = 0; i < num_frames; i++)
> - fec_enet_txq_xmit_frame(fep, txq, frames[i]);
> + for (i = 0; i < num_frames; i++) {
> + if (fec_enet_txq_xmit_frame(fep, txq, frames[i]) != 0)
> + break;
> + sent_frames++;
> + }

net-next has commit 6312c685ae0 ("net: fec: correct the counting of XDP sent frames")
which has exactly these lines.

Plus the patch is missing target tree in its subject line.
For example: [PATCH net-next] ...

Thanks