[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix possible kernel crash with va2pa

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:22:32 +0800
Yangchao Zhou <zhouyates at gmail.com> wrote:

> va2pa depends on the physical address and virtual address offset of
> current mbuf. It may get the wrong physical address of next mbuf which
> allocated in another hugepage segment.
> 
> In rte_mempool_populate_default(), trying to allocate whole block of
> contiguous memory could be failed. Then, it would reserve memory in
> several memzones that have different physical address and virtual address
> offsets. The rte_mempool_populate_default() is used by
> rte_pktmbuf_pool_create().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yangchao Zhou <zhouyates at gmail.com>

Could you add a Fixes tag?