[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/ipsec-secgw: fix pool usage for security session

Akhil Goyal akhil.goyal at nxp.com
Mon Apr 22 16:39:42 CEST 2019


Currently, two separate mempools are being used for creating crypto
sessions and its private data.
crypto sessions are created and initialized separately, so a separate
mempool is passed to each API, but in case of security sessions, where
only one API create and initialize the private data as well.
So if session mempool is passed to create a security session, the
mempool element size is not sufficient enough to hold the private
data as well.
As a perfect solution, the security session create API should take 2
mempools for header and private data and initiatlize accordingly,
but that would mean an API breakage, which will be done in the next
release cycle. So introducing this patch as a workaround to resolve this
issue.

Fixes: 261bbff75e34 ("examples: use separate crypto session mempools")
Cc: roy.fan.zhang at intel.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>
---
 examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec.c b/examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec.c
index 4352cb842..7b8533077 100644
--- a/examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec.c
+++ b/examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec.c
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ create_session(struct ipsec_ctx *ipsec_ctx, struct ipsec_sa *sa)
 			set_ipsec_conf(sa, &(sess_conf.ipsec));
 
 			sa->sec_session = rte_security_session_create(ctx,
-					&sess_conf, ipsec_ctx->session_pool);
+					&sess_conf, ipsec_ctx->session_priv_pool);
 			if (sa->sec_session == NULL) {
 				RTE_LOG(ERR, IPSEC,
 				"SEC Session init failed: err: %d\n", ret);
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ create_session(struct ipsec_ctx *ipsec_ctx, struct ipsec_sa *sa)
 			int ret = 0;
 
 			sa->sec_session = rte_security_session_create(ctx,
-					&sess_conf, ipsec_ctx->session_pool);
+					&sess_conf, ipsec_ctx->session_priv_pool);
 			if (sa->sec_session == NULL) {
 				RTE_LOG(ERR, IPSEC,
 				"SEC Session init failed: err: %d\n", ret);
-- 
2.17.1



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