From: Or Gerlitz <ogerl...@mellanox.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:58:02 +0300
> Prior to commit b3f55bdda8df, the networking core doesn't wire an in-place
> actions list the when the low level driver is called to offload the flow,
> but all low level drivers do that (call tcf_exts_to_list()) in their
> offloading "add" logic.
>
> Now, the in-place list is set in the core which goes over the list in a loop,
> but also by the hw driver when their offloading code is invoked indirectly:
>
> cls_xxx add flow -> tc_setup_cb_call -> tc_exts_setup_cb_egdev_call ->
> hw driver
>
> which messes up the core list instance upon driver return. Fix that by
> avoiding
> in-place list on the net core code that deals with adding flows.
>
> Fixes: b3f55bdda8df ('net: sched: introduce per-egress action device
> callbacks')
> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerl...@mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
Applied.
