[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: reduce interface name size

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Fri Nov 15 14:30:40 CET 2019


On 11/15/2019 1:03 PM, Michael Pfeiffer wrote:
> The name in rte_kni_device_info is passed to the kernel, which allows
> interface names with at most 16 bytes (IFNAMSIZ). rte_kni_alloc with a
> longer name currently trigger a kernel BUG in alloc_netdev_mqs in
> net/core/dev.c. Reduce RTE_KNI_NAMESIZE to prevent this situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeiffer at tu-ilmenau.de>

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>


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