[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vdev: fix name comparison in find_vdev

Nachiketa Prachanda nprachan at vyatta.att-mail.com
Fri Mar 9 23:28:38 CET 2018


Use strcmp to compare device names as the strncmp in original code
causes find_vdev to return -EEXIST  for names that are prefix
of another. The creation of interfaces fails unpredictably based
on the order of their creation. An easy way hit this bug is to create
eth_vhost1 after eth_vhost11.

Signed-off-by: Nachiketa Prachanda <nprachan at vyatta.att-mail.com>

Fixes: dda987315ca2 ("vdev: make virtual bus use its device struct")
Cc: jblunck at infradead.org
Cc: stable at dpdk.org
---
 drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c b/drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c
index e4bc724..7eae319 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ find_vdev(const char *name)
 	TAILQ_FOREACH(dev, &vdev_device_list, next) {
 		const char *devname = rte_vdev_device_name(dev);
 
-		if (!strncmp(devname, name, strlen(name)))
+		if (!strcmp(devname, name))
 			return dev;
 	}
 
-- 
2.7.4



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