[ewg] problem with ipoib_mcast_fix_ip_ib_mc_map_to_2_6_24.patch

Eli Cohen eli at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu Mar 11 00:23:20 PST 2010


I am handling this.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:54:34AM +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> On 3/10/2010 9:05 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:57:17PM +0200, Eli Cohen wrote:
> >>On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:42:22AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >>>I guess, the best fix is to revert c12481586c4ba09cb88dc2090c67fdce7c856cde,
> >>>alter ipoib_mcast_addr_is_valid to not compare bytes 5, 8 and 9,
> >>
> >>>and
> >>>fixup the 'Add in the P_Key' hunk to also fixup the scope byte too.
> >>Can you elaborate on this?
> >+
> >++      /* Work around broken ip_ib_mc_map */
> >++      if (mclist->dmi_addrlen == INFINIBAND_ALEN) {
> >++              mclist->dmi_addr[5] = 0x10 | (dev->broadcast[5]&  0xF);
> >++              mclist->dmi_addr[8] = dev->broadcast[8];
> >++              mclist->dmi_addr[9] = dev->broadcast[9];
> >++      }
> >
> >5 in the dmi_addr is the scope byte. The old patch:
> >
> >-+              /* Add in the P_Key */
> >-+              mgid.raw[4] = (priv->pkey>>  8)&  0xff;
> >-+              mgid.raw[5] = priv->pkey&  0xff;
> >-+
> >
> >Only includes the dmi_addr bytes 8 and 9. This is also a small bug.
> >
> >The above should read something like:
> >
> >mgid.raw[1] = 0x10 | (dev->broadcast[5]&  0xF);
> >mgid.raw[4] = dev->broadcast[8];
> >mgid.raw[5] = dev->broadcast[9];
> >
> >Jason
> Eli
> Can you take care for it now or you need the complete pathc from Jason?
> 
> Vlad
> Please revert the patch that causing the problem
> 
> Tziporet



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