[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: error rollback with kni_dev_remove could cause a kernel crash

[Ferruh Yigit]

Hi ZhouYates,

On 8/25/2016 2:41 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> From: ZhouYates <zhouyates at gmail.com>

I have re-sent your exact patch which was sent as attachment.
Thank you for the patch, can you please follow contribution guide for
next version of the patch? More details on:
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/patches.html#sending-patches

> 
> Signed-off-by: ZhouYates <zhouyates at gmail.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c
> index 59d15ca..7ef17f5 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c
> @@ -448,7 +448,6 @@ kni_ioctl_create(struct net *net,
>  
>  	kni = netdev_priv(net_dev);
>  
> -	kni->net_dev = net_dev;
>  	kni->group_id = dev_info.group_id;
>  	kni->core_id = dev_info.core_id;
>  	strncpy(kni->name, dev_info.name, RTE_KNI_NAMESIZE);
> @@ -561,6 +560,9 @@ kni_ioctl_create(struct net *net,
>  		kni_dev_remove(kni);

But this cause allocated net_dev not freed here ...

>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	}
> +	/*Set the kni->net_dev when the net_dev has registered success.
> +	 * Avoid unregistering unregistered net_dev by kni_dev_remove.*/

Can you please use multi line comment syntax same as rest of the
document. Or perhaps first line can be enough.


> +	kni->net_dev = net_dev;
>  
>  #ifdef RTE_KNI_VHOST
>  	kni_vhost_init(kni);
>