[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] cryptodev: fix check related to device id

Akhil Goyal akhil.goyal at nxp.com
Wed Oct 16 14:49:56 CEST 2019



> 
> Each cryptodev are indexed with dev_id in the global rte_crypto_devices
> variable. nb_devs is incremented / decremented each time a cryptodev is
> created / deleted. The goal of nb_devs was to prevent the user to get an
> invalid dev_id.
> 
> Let's imagine DPDK has configured N cryptodevs. If the cryptodev=1 is
> removed at runtime, the latest cryptodev N cannot be accessible, because
> nb_devs=N-1 with the current implementaion.
> 
> In order to prevent this kind of behavior, let's remove the check with
> nb_devs and iterate in all the rte_crypto_devices elements: if data is
> not NULL, that means a valid cryptodev is available.
> 
> Also, remove max_devs field and use RTE_CRYPTO_MAX_DEVS in order to
> unify the code.
> 
> Fixes: d11b0f30df88 ("cryptodev: introduce API and framework for crypto
> devices")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Meunier <julien.meunier at nokia.com>
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-crypto

Thanks.



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