Re: [PATCH net-next] cnic: call cp->stop_hw() in cnic_start_hw() on allocation failure

2016-05-06 Thread David Miller
From: Jon Maxwell Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 09:55:51 +1000 > We recently had a system crash in the cnic module. Vmcore analysis confirmed > that "ip link up" was executed which failed due to an allocation failure > because of memory fragmentation. Futher analysis revealed that the cnic irq > vect

[PATCH net-next] cnic: call cp->stop_hw() in cnic_start_hw() on allocation failure

2016-05-04 Thread Jon Maxwell
We recently had a system crash in the cnic module. Vmcore analysis confirmed that "ip link up" was executed which failed due to an allocation failure because of memory fragmentation. Futher analysis revealed that the cnic irq vector was still allocated after the "ip link up" that failed. When "