[PATCH net-next 17/22] hv_netvsc: fix return type of ndo_start_xmit function

[YueHaibing]

On 2018/9/20 22:50, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 17/22] hv_netvsc: fix return type of
>> ndo_start_xmit function
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:33:01 +0800
>> YueHaibing <yuehaibing at huawei.com> wrote:
>>> int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
>>>  	 */
>>>  	vf_netdev = rcu_dereference_bh(net_device_ctx->vf_netdev);
>>>  	if (vf_netdev && netif_running(vf_netdev) &&
>>> -	    !netpoll_tx_running(net))
>>> -		return netvsc_vf_xmit(net, vf_netdev, skb);
>>> +	    !netpoll_tx_running(net)) {
>>> +		ret = netvsc_vf_xmit(net, vf_netdev, skb);
>>> +		if (ret)
>>> +			return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
>>> +	}
>>
>> Sorry, the new code is wrong. It will fall through if ret == 0 (NETDEV_TX_OK)
>> Please review and test your patches.
> 
> Plus consideration of -- For error case, please just return NETDEV_TX_OK. We 
> are not sure if the error can go away after retrying, returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY 
> may cause infinite retry from the upper layer.
> 
> So, let's just always return NETDEV_TX_OK like this:
> 		netvsc_vf_xmit(net, vf_netdev, skb);
> 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;

Thank you for review.

Will do that in v2.

> 
> Thanks,
> - Haiyang
> 
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