[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: fix data type for port id

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Oct 26 13:34:19 CET 2020


26/10/2020 13:33, Andrew Rybchenko:
> On 10/26/20 3:29 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 26/10/2020 13:24, wangyunjian:
> >> From: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> >>
> >> The ethdev port id should be 16 bits now. This patch fixes the data
> >> type of the variable for 'pid', changing from uint32_t to uint16_t.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 5b7ba31148a8 ("ethdev: add port ownership")
> > 
> > It was 32-bit on purpose, to avoid overflow in this loop:
> > 	for (pid = 0; pid < RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS; pid++)
> > 
> > It is now replaced by RTE_ETH_FOREACH_VALID_DEV,
> > but I wonder whether we still have this theoritical overflow risk.
> > If yes, we should change more variables to 32-bit.
> 
> Ah, it is too tricky. May be it is better to ensure that
> RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS is less or equal to UINT16_MAX?

Yes could be another option.




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