Re: BUG: bnxt_en driver fails to initialize

[Michael Chan]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 8:03 PM Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.le...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On a recent net-next 932630fa902878f4c8c50d0b1260eeb9de16b0a4,
> installing the build on a box which has a Broadcom card with
> the 20.1 firmware, the driver refuses to initialize.  I tracked
> this down to:
>
>         static int bnxt_alloc_stats(struct bnxt *bp)
>         ...
>                  cpr->hw_stats = dma_alloc_coherent(&pdev->dev, size,
>                                                     &cpr->hw_stats_map,
>                                                     GFP_KERNEL);
>                  if (!cpr->hw_stats)
>                          return -ENOMEM;
>
> Where size == 0, so obviously it returns NULL, and -ENOMEM.

Thanks for the report.  I will send a patch to fix this later tonight.

>
> The same build, when installed on different box with the
> 20.6.167.0 firmware, works fine.  Details below.
>
>