[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "net/mlx4_en: Count HW buffer overrun only once" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net/mlx4_en: Count HW buffer overrun only once

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt26.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Amir Vadai <amir at vadai.me>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:24:22 +0200
Subject: net/mlx4_en: Count HW buffer overrun only once

commit 281e8b2fdf8e4ef366b899453cae50e09b577ada upstream.

RdropOvflw counts overrun of HW buffer, therefore should
be used for rx_fifo_errors only.

Currently RdropOvflw counter is mistakenly also set into
rx_missed_errors and rx_over_errors too, which makes the
device total dropped packets accounting to show wrong results.

Fix that. Use it for rx_fifo_errors only.

Fixes: c27a02cd94d6 ('mlx4_en: Add driver for Mellanox ConnectX 10GbE NIC')
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amir at vadai.me>
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_port.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_port.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_port.c
index c2cfb05e7290..40d6c3c6b3a0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_port.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_port.c
@@ -177,11 +177,11 @@ int mlx4_en_DUMP_ETH_STATS(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev, u8 port, u8 reset)
 			   be64_to_cpu(mlx4_en_stats->MCAST_novlan);
 	stats->collisions = 0;
 	stats->rx_length_errors = be32_to_cpu(mlx4_en_stats->RdropLength);
-	stats->rx_over_errors = be32_to_cpu(mlx4_en_stats->RdropOvflw);
+	stats->rx_over_errors = 0;
 	stats->rx_crc_errors = be32_to_cpu(mlx4_en_stats->RCRC);
 	stats->rx_frame_errors = 0;
 	stats->rx_fifo_errors = be32_to_cpu(mlx4_en_stats->RdropOvflw);
-	stats->rx_missed_errors = be32_to_cpu(mlx4_en_stats->RdropOvflw);
+	stats->rx_missed_errors = 0;
 	stats->tx_aborted_errors = 0;
 	stats->tx_carrier_errors = 0;
 	stats->tx_fifo_errors = 0;