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RDMA/core: Fix incorrect structure packing for booleans
authorJason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Fri, 23 Dec 2016 01:07:52 +0000 (18:07 -0700)
committerTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 21:20:54 +0000 (15:20 -0600)
commit16a5d500cda0002524b09733ae8cf6306a926d4f
tree94924eb38a0abf2980ba4ec93f871a030105642f
parent8da12e10a191c62830c277f35a4fa5403eb1bcd2
RDMA/core: Fix incorrect structure packing for booleans

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1672544
commit 55efcfcd7776165b294f8b5cd6e05ca00ec89b7c upstream.

The RDMA core uses ib_pack() to convert from unpacked CPU structs
to on-the-wire bitpacked structs.

This process requires that 1 bit fields are declared as u8 in the
unpacked struct, otherwise the packing process does not read the
value properly and the packed result is wired to 0. Several
places wrongly used int.

Crucially this means the kernel has never, set reversible
correctly in the path record request. It has always asked for
irreversible paths even if the ULP requests otherwise.

When the kernel is used with a SM that supports this feature, it
completely breaks communication management if reversible paths are
not properly requested.

The only reason this ever worked is because opensm ignores the
reversible bit.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
include/rdma/ib_sa.h