[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix out of bound access when no cpu is available

[David Marchand]

In the unlikely case when the dpdk application is started with no cpu
available in the [0, RTE_MAX_LCORE - 1] range, the master_lcore is
automatically chosen as RTE_MAX_LCORE which triggers an out of bound
access.

Either you have a crash then, or the initialisation fails later when
trying to pin the master thread on it.
In my test, with RTE_MAX_LCORE == 2:

$ taskset -c 2 ./master/app/testpmd --no-huge -m 512 --log-level *:debug
[...]
EAL: pthread_setaffinity_np failed
PANIC in eal_thread_init_master():
cannot set affinity
7: [./master/app/testpmd() [0x47f629]]

Bugzilla ID: 19
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
index 3796dbf..7aad303 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
@@ -1383,6 +1383,8 @@ static int xdigit2val(unsigned char c)
 	/* default master lcore is the first one */
 	if (!master_lcore_parsed) {
 		cfg->master_lcore = rte_get_next_lcore(-1, 0, 0);
+		if (cfg->master_lcore >= RTE_MAX_LCORE)
+			return -1;
 		lcore_config[cfg->master_lcore].core_role = ROLE_RTE;
 	}
 
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1.8.3.1