[PATCH v21 10/25] net/pcap: clean up TX dumper return value and types

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Mar 25 03:37:41 CET 2026


Use uint32_t for packet lengths to match rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len()
return type. Split rte_pktmbuf_read() out of the pcap_dump() call
and add RTE_ASSERT for bogus mbuf detection. Remove incorrect
err_pkts accounting since the dumper loop cannot partially fail,
and return the loop index for consistency with eth_pcap_tx.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
index ca08b8e342..8df66ebb96 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
@@ -407,7 +407,8 @@ eth_pcap_tx_dumper(void *queue, struct rte_mbuf **bufs, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 	 * dumper */
 	for (i = 0; i < nb_pkts; i++) {
 		struct rte_mbuf *mbuf = bufs[i];
-		size_t len, caplen;
+		uint32_t len, caplen;
+		const uint8_t *data;
 
 		len = rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(mbuf);
 		caplen = RTE_MIN(len, RTE_ETH_PCAP_SNAPSHOT_LEN);
@@ -415,15 +416,16 @@ eth_pcap_tx_dumper(void *queue, struct rte_mbuf **bufs, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 		calculate_timestamp(&header.ts);
 		header.len = len;
 		header.caplen = caplen;
-		/* rte_pktmbuf_read() returns a pointer to the data directly
-		 * in the mbuf (when the mbuf is contiguous) or, otherwise,
-		 * a pointer to temp_data after copying into it.
-		 */
-		pcap_dump((u_char *)dumper, &header,
-			rte_pktmbuf_read(mbuf, 0, caplen, temp_data));
+
+		data = rte_pktmbuf_read(mbuf, 0, caplen, temp_data);
+
+		/* This could only happen if mbuf is bogus pkt_len > data_len */
+		RTE_ASSERT(data != NULL);
+		pcap_dump((u_char *)dumper, &header, data);
 
 		num_tx++;
 		tx_bytes += caplen;
+
 		rte_pktmbuf_free(mbuf);
 	}
 
@@ -435,9 +437,8 @@ eth_pcap_tx_dumper(void *queue, struct rte_mbuf **bufs, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 	pcap_dump_flush(dumper);
 	dumper_q->tx_stat.pkts += num_tx;
 	dumper_q->tx_stat.bytes += tx_bytes;
-	dumper_q->tx_stat.err_pkts += nb_pkts - num_tx;
 
-	return nb_pkts;
+	return i;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.53.0



More information about the dev mailing list