[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: fix crash with multiprocess
Thomas Monjalon
thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Fri Mar 27 11:05:24 CET 2015
2015-03-26 17:36, De Lara Guarch, Pablo:
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson
> > The data structure for the rx and tx callbacks is local to each process
> > since it contains function pointers and cannot be shared between
> > different unique binaries. However, because it is not in
> > rte_eth_dev_data structure, the array is not getting initialized for
> > secondary processes - neither is it getting appropriately resized if the
> > number of RX/TX queues changes. This causes crashes in secondary
> > processes as they dereference a null pointer in struct rte_eth_dev.
> >
> > This patch fixes this by introducing an upper-bound on the number of
> > queues per port that can be configured, and then uses this to make the
> > array statically sized, thereby avoiding the crashes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
>
> Tested-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>
Fixes: 4dc294158cac ("ethdev: support optional Rx and Tx callbacks")
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
Applied, thanks
The multiprocess design is difficult to maintain.
It would be better to have someone registered as maintainer of this part.
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