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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. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.