The purpose of the delayed work in the SPAN module is to potentially update the destination port and various encapsulation parameters of SPAN agents that point to a VLAN device or a GRE tap. The destination port can change following the insertion of a new route, for example. SPAN agents that point to a physical port or the CPU port are static and never change throughout the lifetime of the SPAN agent. Therefore, skip over them in the delayed work. This fixes an issue where the delayed work overwrites the policer that was set on a SPAN agent pointing to the CPU. Modifying the delayed work to inherit the original policer configuration is error-prone, as the same will be needed for any new parameter. Fixes: 4039504e6a0c ("mlxsw: spectrum_span: Allow setting policer on a SPAN agent") Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. 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.
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