[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix check when retrieving current cpu affinity

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 14-Feb-19 1:27 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> pthread_getaffinity_np returns a >0 value when failing.
> 
> This is mainly for the sake of correctness.
> The only case where it could fail is when passing an incorrect cpuset
> size wrt to the kernel.
> 
> Fixes: 2eba8d21f3c9 ("eal: restrict cores auto detection")
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> ---
>   lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 5 ++---
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> index 6c96f45..1f45f82 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> @@ -1343,10 +1343,9 @@ static int xdigit2val(unsigned char c)
>   	unsigned int lcore_id;
>   	unsigned int removed = 0;
>   	rte_cpuset_t affinity_set;
> -	pthread_t tid = pthread_self();
>   
> -	if (pthread_getaffinity_np(tid, sizeof(rte_cpuset_t),
> -				&affinity_set) < 0)
> +	if (pthread_getaffinity_np(pthread_self(), sizeof(rte_cpuset_t),
> +				&affinity_set))
>   		CPU_ZERO(&affinity_set);
>   
>   	for (lcore_id = 0; lcore_id < RTE_MAX_LCORE; lcore_id++) {
> 
CC: stable?

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Thanks,
Anatoly