On 01/18/2019 04:46 AM, Dave McKay wrote:
> The state member of the napi_struct is not initialised correctly, it
> sets the SCHED bit without initialising the state to zero first. This
> results in peculiar behaviour if the original napi_struct didn't come
> from a zero initialised region to start with.
> 
> This patch just sets it directly using the appropriate bitfield
> constant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave McKay <mckay.da...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 82f20022259d..250f97bf1973 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -6276,7 +6276,7 @@ void netif_napi_add(struct net_device *dev, struct 
> napi_struct *napi,
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NETPOLL
>       napi->poll_owner = -1;
>  #endif
> -     set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &napi->state);
> +     napi->state = NAPIF_STATE_SCHED;
>       napi_hash_add(napi);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_napi_add);
> 

I am curious, which driver has exhibit any issue with current code ?

Thanks.

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