[PATCH 2/2] pdump: fix race in pdump disabling

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Nov 19 04:29:51 CET 2025


12/11/2025 21:05, Stephen Hemminger:
> There is a race where the request to disable pdump may get ahead
> of the handling of pdump requests in dumpcap. The fix is to do
> local removal of callbacks before forwarding same to secondary.
> 
> To reproduce:
>    1. Start testpmd and start traffic
>    2. Start dumpcap to capture
>    3. Interrupt dumpcap with ^C
> 
> Testpmd will show missing response and dumpcap will show error:
> EAL: Cannot find action: mp_pdump
> 
> Only reproducible if additional logging not enabled.
> 
> Fixes: c3ceb8742295 ("pdump: forward callback enable to secondary process")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>

Applied, thanks.





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