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Commit 822d54b9 authored by Alexander Duyck's avatar Alexander Duyck Committed by David S. Miller
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netpoll: Drop budget parameter from NAPI polling call hierarchy



For some reason we were carrying the budget value around between the
various calls to napi->poll.  If for example one of the drivers called had
a bug in which it returned a non-zero value for work this could result in
the budget value becoming negative.

Rather than carry around a value of budget that is 0 or less we can instead
just loop through and pass 0 to each napi->poll call.  If any driver
returns a value for work done that is non-zero then we can report that
driver and continue rather than allowing a bad actor to make the budget
value negative and pass that negative value to napi->poll.

Note, the only actual change here is that instead of letting budget become
negative we are keeping it at 0 regardless of the value returned for work
since it should not be possible for the polling routine to do any actual
work with a budget of 0.  So if the polling routine returns a non-0 value
we are just reporting it and continuing with a budget of 0 rather than
letting that work value be subtracted from the budget of 0.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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