On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:45:17 +0100 Ferruh Yigit <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/9/2018 6:50 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Fix the error handling in setting up transmit buffer. > > If setting up chimney buffer fails, then it is not connected so > > no need to send disconnect. > > > > Allow for some unused area if full area is not used. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> > > subsytem is net/netvsc, so title should be: > net/netvsc: fix chimney buffer size error handling > > Fixes: 4e9c73e96e83 ("net/netvsc: add Hyper-V network device") > Cc: [email protected] > > Assuming you want patch to be backported. > > I will update as above while merging. There is not a high urgency to back port this. If chimney buffer setup fails the driver is unusable anyway. It is more of a theoretical error condition.
