[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/vdev_netvsc: fix routed devices probing

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Mar 8 12:55:23 CET 2018


On 2/27/2018 2:22 PM, Matan Azrad wrote:
> NetVSC netdevices which are already routed should not be probed because
> they are used for management purposes by the HyperV.
> 
> The corrupted code got the routed devices from the system file
> /proc/net/route and wrongly parsed only the odd lines, so devices which
> their routes were in even lines, were considered as unrouted devices
> and were probed.
> 
> Use linux netlink lib to detect the routed NetVSC devices instead of
> file parsing.
> 
> Fixes: 31182fadfb21 ("net/vdev_netvsc: skip routed netvsc probing")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Cc: stephen at networkplumber.org
> 
> Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.


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