[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 17.11.2 released

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi all,

Here is a new stable release:
	http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-17.11.2.tar.xz

The git tree is at:
	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/

This stable release fixes CVE-2018-1059, all users of the vhost library
are strongly encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.

Know issues: compilation with VHOST_DEBUG is currently broken, will be
fixed in a followup release.

Luca Boccassi

---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst      |  15 ++
 examples/vhost/virtio_net.c                 |  94 ++++++++++--
 examples/vhost_scsi/vhost_scsi.c            |  56 ++++++--
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_version.h |   2 +-
 lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost.h                |  46 ++++++
 lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map      |   6 +
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c                    |  39 ++---
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h                    |   8 +-
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c               |  58 +++++---
 lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c               | 411 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 pkg/dpdk.spec                               |   2 +-
 11 files changed, 619 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)
Luca Boccassi (1):
      version: 17.11.2

Maxime Coquelin (11):
      vhost: fix indirect descriptors table translation size (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
      vhost: check all range is mapped when translating GPAs (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
      vhost: introduce safe API for GPA translation (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
      vhost: ensure all range is mapped when translating QVAs (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
      vhost: add support for non-contiguous indirect descs tables (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
      vhost: handle virtually non-contiguous buffers in Tx (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
      vhost: handle virtually non-contiguous buffers in Rx (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
      vhost: handle virtually non-contiguous buffers in Rx-mrg (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
      examples/vhost: move to safe GPA translation API
      examples/vhost_scsi: move to safe GPA translation API
      vhost: deprecate unsafe GPA translation API (fixes CVE-2018-1059)