Hello,
The patch you proposed fixed a crash I experienced in IXGBE VF.
However, there's still another crash possibility
if the code will proceed with speed == 0 condition to
ixgbe_get_link_capabilities
VF mac.ops.get_link_capabilities is also set to NULL;
Regards,
Gregory
On Wednesday, 10 May 2017 10:00:02 IDT Wei Dai wrote:
> hw->mac.ops.get_media-type() of ixgbe VF is NULL and should not
> be called directly. It had better be replaced by calling
> ixgbe_get_media_type( ) to avoid crash.
>
> Fixes: c12d22f65b13 ("net/ixgbe: ensure link status is updated")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Dai <wei....@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> index ec667d8..ed2baec 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> @@ -3799,7 +3799,7 @@ ixgbe_dev_link_update(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, int
> wait_to_complete)
> hw->mac.get_link_status = true;
>
> if ((intr->flags & IXGBE_FLAG_NEED_LINK_CONFIG) &&
> - hw->mac.ops.get_media_type(hw) == ixgbe_media_type_fiber) {
> + ixgbe_get_media_type(hw) == ixgbe_media_type_fiber) {
> speed = hw->phy.autoneg_advertised;
> if (!speed)
> ixgbe_get_link_capabilities(hw, &speed, &autoneg);
>
