[dpdk-dev] CLI parsing issue
Lu, Wenzhuo
wenzhuo.lu at intel.com
Mon Apr 24 03:49:38 CEST 2017
Hi Olivier,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lu, Wenzhuo
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 9:18 AM
> To: Olivier MATZ
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: CLI parsing issue
>
> Hi Olivier,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Olivier MATZ [mailto:olivier.matz at 6wind.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:55 PM
> > To: Lu, Wenzhuo
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> > Subject: Re: CLI parsing issue
> >
> > Hi Wenzhuo,
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:36:38 +0000, "Lu, Wenzhuo"
> > <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Olivier,
> > > I met a problem thar the parsing result of CLI is wrong.
> > > I checked this function, cmdline_parse. It will check the CLI
> > > instances one by one. Even if an instance is matched, the parsing
> > > will not stop for ambiguous check. Seems the following check may
> > > change the parsing result of the previous one,
> > > /* fully parsed */
> > > tok = match_inst(inst, buf, 0,
> > > result.buf, sizeof(result.buf),
> > >
> > > &dyn_tokens);
> > >
> > >
> > > Is it better to use a temporary validate for match_inst and only
> > > store the result when it matches, so the previous result has no
> > > chance to be changed? Like bellow,
> > >
> > >
> > > diff --git a/lib/librte_cmdline/cmdline_parse.c
> > > b/lib/librte_cmdline/cmdline_parse.c
> > > index 763c286..663efd1 100644
> > > --- a/lib/librte_cmdline/cmdline_parse.c
> > > +++ b/lib/librte_cmdline/cmdline_parse.c
> > > @@ -259,6 +259,7 @@
> > > char buf[CMDLINE_PARSE_RESULT_BUFSIZE];
> > > long double align; /* strong alignment constraint for buf */
> > > } result;
> > > + char tmp_buf[CMDLINE_PARSE_RESULT_BUFSIZE];
> > > cmdline_parse_token_hdr_t
> > *dyn_tokens[CMDLINE_PARSE_DYNAMIC_TOKENS];
> > > void (*f)(void *, struct cmdline *, void *) = NULL;
> > > void *data = NULL;
> > > @@ -321,7 +322,7 @@
> > > debug_printf("INST %d\n", inst_num);
> > >
> > > /* fully parsed */
> > > - tok = match_inst(inst, buf, 0, result.buf, sizeof(result.buf),
> > > + tok = match_inst(inst, buf, 0, tmp_buf,
> > > + sizeof(tmp_buf),
> > > &dyn_tokens);
> > >
> > > if (tok > 0) /* we matched at least one token */ @@
> > > -329,6 +330,8 @@
> > >
> > > else if (!tok) {
> > > debug_printf("INST fully parsed\n");
> > > + memcpy(result.buf, tmp_buf,
> > > + CMDLINE_PARSE_RESULT_BUFSIZE);
> > > /* skip spaces */
> > > while (isblank2(*curbuf)) {
> > > curbuf++;
> > >
> > >
> >
> > At first glance, I think your patch doesn't hurt. Do you have an
> > example code that triggers the issue?
> Sorry, I didn't show you the issue we met.
> It's easy to reproduce on 17.05 RC1.
> "testpmd> set tx loopback 0 on
> Invalid port 116"
> Whatever the input port id is, it's taken as 116 after parsing the CLI.
>
> Interesting, this issue is triggered by this patch, after I added a new CLI, the
> "set tx loopback ..." is not working.
>
> commit 22e6545fd02cab42332acd716b8921dd0aab3ad9
> Author: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>
> Date: Fri Feb 24 11:24:35 2017 +0800
>
> app/testpmd: set TC strict link priority mode
>
> I checked the implement of CLI parsing.
> The implementation is going through all the instances in main_ctx to see
> which instance can match the string we typed.
> If typing "set tx loopback 0 on", it matches cmd_set_tx_loopback, and the
> parsing result is,
> $2 = {set = "set\000tx loopback 0 off \n", '\000' <repeats 104 times>, tx =
> "tx\000loopback 0 off \n", '\000' <repeats 108 times>,
> loopback = "loopback\000\060 off \n", '\000' <repeats 111 times>,
> port_id = 0 '\000',
> on_off = "off\000\n", '\000' <repeats 122 times>}
>
> Till now, everything is fine.
> Then the parsing is not stopped, it's going on to check if the string can match
> any of the left instances. When checking cmd_strict_link_prio, although it
> doesn't match, the parsing result is changed to,
> $1 = {set = "set\000tx loopback 0 off \n", '\000' <repeats 104 times>, tx =
> "tx\000loopback 0 off \n", '\000' <repeats 108 times>,
> loopback = "loopback\000\060 off \n", '\000' <repeats 111 times>,
> port_id = 116 't',
> on_off = "x\000loopback 0 off \n", '\000' <repeats 109 times>}
>
> You see, now the port id and on_off both are wrong. Port_id points to char
> 't' of "tx loopback ...". So it's always 116, the ASCII of 't'.
Any news? Shall I send a patch?
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