[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: check mbuf refcnt when clearing RX/TX ring

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Fri Jul 3 17:46:55 CEST 2015


2015-07-03 16:40, Bruce Richardson:
> The function to clear the TX ring when a port was being closed, e.g. on
> exit in testpmd, was not checking the mbuf refcnt before freeing it.
> Since the function in the vector driver to clear the ring after TX does
> not set the pointer to NULL post-free, this caused crashes if mbuf
> debugging was turned on.

Please, could you add a Fixes: line to reference the origin of the bug?
Thanks


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