[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] crypto/qat: fix memzone creation to use a fixed size string

[John Griffin]

On 18/09/16 09:16, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 04:32:46PM +0100, John Griffin wrote:
>> Hi Liu,
>> Comments embedded.
>>
>> Rgds,
>> John.
>>
>> On 05/09/16 04:23, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:21:38AM +0100, John Griffin wrote:
>>>> Remove the dependency on dev->driver->pci_drv.name when
>>>> creating the memzone for the qat hardware queues.
>>>> The pci_drv.name may grow too large for RTE_MEMZONE_NAMESIZE.
>>>
>>> Will the "may grow too large" cause any issues? If so, state it here. If
>>> not, marking this patch as a "fix" patch doesn't make sense to me then.
>> We discovered this when applying a future patch (2141c21966) and it exposed
>> this issue.
>> Problem is we create a memzone per hardware queue pair and if the memzone
>> name is too large, then this code will not produce a unique
>> name and two qps will end using the same memzone.
>
> Thanks for the info, and I think you should put it in the commit log: it
> helps people to really know what might go wrong without this fix.
>
> 	--yliu
>
No problem. Yes will add to the v2.

Rgds,
John.