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authorYishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>2019-03-06 20:21:42 +0300
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>2019-03-18 03:40:39 +0300
commitc5ae1954c47d3fd8815bd5a592aba18702c93f33 (patch)
tree98e5bda9b9d51c7f92d7984e5fa28cd9c3106de8 /security
parentf84b66b9cce78e8f9d38204fdaa75f07c75f4911 (diff)
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IB/mlx5: Use mlx5 core to create/destroy a DEVX DCT
To prevent a hardware memory leak when a DEVX DCT object is destroyed without calling DRAIN DCT before, (e.g. under cleanup flow), need to manage its creation and destruction via mlx5 core. In that case the DRAIN DCT command will be called and only once that it will be completed the DESTROY DCT command will be called. Otherwise, the DESTROY DCT may fail and a hardware leak may occur. As of that change the DRAIN DCT command should not be exposed any more from DEVX, it's managed internally by the driver to work as expected by the device specification. Fixes: 7efce3691d33 ("IB/mlx5: Add obj create and destroy functionality") Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Artemy Kovalyov <artemyko@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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