[PATCH v2] test/debug: fix crash with mlx5 devices

Dariusz Sosnowski dsosnowski at nvidia.com
Fri Oct 3 19:54:04 CEST 2025


On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 08:51:01AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> Running rte_exit() in a forked process means that shared memory will be
> released by the child process before the parent process does the same.
> This issue has been seen recently when some GHA virtual machine (with
> some mlx5 devices) runs the debug_autotest unit test.
> 
> Instead, run rte_panic() and rte_exit() from a new DPDK process spawned
> like for other recursive unit tests.
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 1796
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>

Looks good to me. Thank you.

Acked-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski at nvidia.com>


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