[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ethdev: avoid usage of uninit device info in bad port case

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Jul 23 20:45:32 CEST 2019


23/07/2019 15:39, Thomas Monjalon:
> 23/07/2019 15:34, Andrew Rybchenko:
> > On 7/23/19 4:14 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 23/07/2019 14:11, Andrew Rybchenko:
> > >> rte_eth_dev_info_get() returns void and caller does know if the function
> > >> does its job or not. Changing of the return value to int would be
> > >> API/ABI breakage which requires deprecation process and cannot be
> > >> backported to stable branches. For now, make sure that device info is
> > >> initialized even in the case of invalid port ID.
> > >>
> > >> Fixes: a30268e9a2d0 ("ethdev: reset whole dev info structure before filling")
> > >> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Applied, thanks




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