[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1 v2] eal: Fix misleading error messages, errno can't be trusted.
Jean Tourrilhes
jt at labs.hpe.com
Mon Oct 3 17:55:56 CEST 2016
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 02:25:40PM +0100, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy wrote:
> Hi Jean,
>
> There are some format issues with the patch:
>
> You can run scripts/check-git-log.sh to check them:
> Wrong headline format:
> eal: Fix misleading error messages, errno can't be trusted.
> Wrong headline uppercase:
> eal: Fix misleading error messages, errno can't be trusted.
> Missing 'Fixes' tag:
> eal: Fix misleading error messages, errno can't be trusted.
>
> The script's output highlights the different issues.
SOrry about that, I casually read the page on
http://dpdk.org/dev, but obviously I need to look at it again.
> On 21/09/2016 22:10, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >@@ -263,9 +264,16 @@ rte_eal_config_reattach(void)
> > mem_config = (struct rte_mem_config *) mmap(rte_mem_cfg_addr,
> > sizeof(*mem_config), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
> > mem_cfg_fd, 0);
> >+ if (mem_config == MAP_FAILED || mem_config != rte_mem_cfg_addr) {
> >+ if (mem_config != MAP_FAILED)
> >+ /* errno is stale, don't use */
> >+ rte_panic("Cannot mmap memory for rte_config at [%p], got [%p] - please use '--base-virtaddr' option\n",
> >+ rte_mem_cfg_addr, mem_config);
> >+ else
> >+ rte_panic("Cannot mmap memory for rte_config! error %i (%s)\n",
> >+ errno, strerror(errno));
> >+ }
> > close(mem_cfg_fd);
> >- if (mem_config == MAP_FAILED || mem_config != rte_mem_cfg_addr)
> >- rte_panic("Cannot mmap memory for rte_config\n");
>
> NIT but any reason you moved the check before closing the file descriptor?
> (not that it matters with current code as we panic anyway)
"close()" may change "errno" according to its man page.
> Thanks,
> Sergio
Thanks for the review !
Jean
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