[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] net/ixgbe: initialise nb_representor_ports value

Doherty, Declan declan.doherty at intel.com
Tue May 1 14:53:27 CEST 2018


On 01/05/2018 10:46 AM, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Declan Doherty
>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2018 4:33 PM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>> Cc: Doherty, Declan <declan.doherty at intel.com>
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] net/ixgbe: initialise nb_representor_ports value
>>
>> Initialise rte_ethdev_args nb_representor_ports to zero to handle
>> the case where no devargs are passed to the IXGBE PF on
>> device probe, so that there is no invalid attempts to create
>> representor ports.
>>
>> Coverity Issue: 277231
>> Fixes: cf80ba6e2038 ("net/ixgbe: add support for representor ports")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty at intel.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 3 +--
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> index 0ccf55dc8..283dd7e49 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> @@ -1725,8 +1725,7 @@ eth_ixgbe_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
>>   		struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev)
>>   {
>>   	char name[RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN];
>> -
>> -	struct rte_eth_devargs eth_da;
>> +	struct rte_eth_devargs eth_da = { .nb_representor_ports = 0 };
>>   	int i, retval;
>>
>>   	if (pci_dev->device.devargs) {
> 
> Might be a bit better:
> If (pci_dev->device.devargs) { rte_eth_devargs_parse(...);...}
> else memset(&eth_da, 0, sizeof(eth_da));
> to be more consistent.
> BTW, I think rte_eth_devargs_parse() need to add formal check for input parameters.
> Konstantin
> 

Ok, thanks Konstantin, that makes sense, we're working on cleaning up 
rte_eth_devargs_parse() to align with kvargs so I'll make sure to add 
those checks.

> 
> 
>> --
>> 2.14.3
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