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title="UNCONFIRMED - ring PMD uses unsafe internal devarg"
href="https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1687">1687</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>ring PMD uses unsafe internal devarg
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<th>Product</th>
<td>DPDK
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<th>Version</th>
<td>25.03
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>Normal
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<th>Component</th>
<td>ethdev
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>dev@dpdk.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>stephen@networkplumber.org
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<pre class="bz_comment_text">The ring PMD uses and undocumented devarg of "internal=" to create network
device from ring parameters. The problem is that it passes a pointer across
devargs which leads to ruin. There is no way to validate that pointer really
points to valid data.
Example:
dpdk-testpmd --vdev=net_ring0,internal=0xdeadbeef -- -i
EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 20
EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1
EAL: Detected static linkage of DPDK
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'VA'
Segmentation fault
This is a design flaw.
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