[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] fix segfault seen with performance-thread example

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Jul 18 23:20:51 CEST 2019


15/07/2019 17:39, Erik Gabriel Carrillo:
> A crash occurs in the examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread when it calls
> into rte_timer_manage() from the LThread library it utilizes.  This happens
> because the application omitted a call to rte_timer_subsystem_init(), which
> leaves a pointer set to null in the timer library.  This pointer is
> dereferenced in a check for validity of a timer data object, resulting in
> the segfault.  This series fixes the validity check in the timer library,
> and adds the missing call to rte_timer_subsystem_init in the application.
> 
> Erik Gabriel Carrillo (2):
>   timer: fix null pointer dereference
>   examples/performance-thread: init timer subsystem

Applied, thanks




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