On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 05:34:03AM -0700, wi...@infradead.org wrote:
> Allocate agent IDs from a global IDR instead of an atomic variable.
> This eliminates the possibility of reusing an ID which is already in
> use after 4 billion registrations.  We limit the assigned ID to be less
> than 2^24 as the mlx4 driver uses the most significant byte of the agent
> ID to store the slave number.  Users unlucky enough to see a collision
> between agent numbers and slave numbers see messages like:
> 
>  mlx4_ib: egress mad has non-null tid msb:1 class:4 slave:0
> 
> and the MAD layer stops working.
> 
> We look up the agent under protection of the RCU lock, which means we
> have to free the agent using kfree_rcu, and only increment the reference
> counter if it is not 0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawil...@microsoft.com>
> Reported-by: Hans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard...@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Jack Morgenstein <ja...@dev.mellanox.co.il>
> Tested-by: Jack Morgenstein <ja...@dev.mellanox.co.il>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c      | 83 ++++++++++++++++++------------
>  drivers/infiniband/core/mad_priv.h |  7 +--
>  2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

Applied to for-next, thanks everyone

Jason

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