From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 03/29] vdpa_sim: store parsed MAC address in a buffer
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:06:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210223080655.ps7ujvgvs6wtlszf@steredhat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210222195414.GA24405@amd>
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 08:54:15PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>Hi!
>
>> From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
>>
>> commit cf1a3b35382c10ce315c32bd2b3d7789897fbe13 upstream.
>>
>> As preparation for the next patches, we store the MAC address,
>> parsed during the vdpasim_create(), in a buffer that will be used
>> to fill 'config' together with other configurations.
>
>I'm not sure why this series is in stable. It is not documented to fix
>anything bad.
>
>> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c
>> @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ static char *macaddr;
>> module_param(macaddr, charp, 0);
>> MODULE_PARM_DESC(macaddr, "Ethernet MAC address");
>>
>> +u8 macaddr_buf[ETH_ALEN];
>> +
>
>Should this be static?
Yes, there is already a patch [1] queued by Michael but not yet
upstream. When it will be merged upstream I will make sure it will be
backported.
Thanks,
Stefano
[1]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git/commit/?h=linux-next&id=8c0bea4adac9f1f9ac827210fa8862be4bde6290
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-23 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-22 12:12 [PATCH 5.10 00/29] 5.10.18-rc1 review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:12 ` [PATCH 5.10 01/29] vdpa_sim: remove hard-coded virtq count Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:12 ` [PATCH 5.10 02/29] vdpa_sim: add struct vdpasim_dev_attr for device attributes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:12 ` [PATCH 5.10 03/29] vdpa_sim: store parsed MAC address in a buffer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 19:54 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-23 4:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-23 8:06 ` Stefano Garzarella [this message]
2021-02-24 8:29 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-24 8:36 ` Stefano Garzarella
2021-02-22 12:12 ` [PATCH 5.10 04/29] vdpa_sim: make config generic and usable for any device type Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:12 ` [PATCH 5.10 05/29] vdpa_sim: add get_config callback in vdpasim_dev_attr Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 06/29] IB/isert: add module param to set sg_tablesize for IO cmd Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 07/29] net: qrtr: Fix port ID for control messages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 08/29] mptcp: skip to next candidate if subflow has unacked data Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 09/29] net/sched: fix miss init the mru in qdisc_skb_cb Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 10/29] mt76: mt7915: fix endian issues Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 11/29] mt76: mt7615: fix rdd mcu cmd endianness Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 12/29] net: sched: incorrect Kconfig dependencies on Netfilter modules Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 13/29] net: openvswitch: fix TTL decrement exception action execution Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 14/29] net: bridge: Fix a warning when del bridge sysfs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 15/29] net: fix proc_fs init handling in af_packet and tls Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 16/29] Xen/x86: dont bail early from clear_foreign_p2m_mapping() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 17/29] Xen/x86: also check kernel mapping in set_foreign_p2m_mapping() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 18/29] Xen/gntdev: correct dev_bus_addr handling in gntdev_map_grant_pages() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 19/29] Xen/gntdev: correct error checking " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 20/29] xen/arm: dont ignore return errors from set_phys_to_machine Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 21/29] xen-blkback: dont "handle" error by BUG() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 22/29] xen-netback: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 23/29] xen-scsiback: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 24/29] xen-blkback: fix error handling in xen_blkbk_map() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 25/29] tty: protect tty_write from odd low-level tty disciplines Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 26/29] Bluetooth: btusb: Always fallback to alt 1 for WBS Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 27/29] btrfs: fix backport of 2175bf57dc952 in 5.10.13 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 28/29] btrfs: fix crash after non-aligned direct IO write with O_DSYNC Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 5.10 29/29] media: pwc: Use correct device for DMA Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 17:17 ` [PATCH 5.10 00/29] 5.10.18-rc1 review Florian Fainelli
2021-02-24 18:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 18:42 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-24 18:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-22 21:28 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-02-22 21:34 ` Igor
2021-02-23 2:49 ` Naresh Kamboju
2021-02-23 21:06 ` Shuah Khan
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