[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bus/vmbus: Fix crash when handling packets in secondary process

[Thomas Monjalon]

21/07/2021 02:17, Long Li:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> > 
> > Looks good, minor comment. You don't have to check for NULL before calling
> > rte_free().
> > Rte_free(NULL) is a NOP like free(NULL).
> > 
> > Sorry for top posting; but if you send to my Microsoft account you are stuck
> > with what Outlook can do...
> > 
> From: jerb <jonathan.erb at banduracyber.com>
> > 
> > Have secondary processes construct their own copy of primary channel with
> > own mappings.
> > 
> > Remove vmbus_channel primary ptr from struct mapped_vmbus_resource as
> > its not used.
> > 
> > Populate virtual memory address "addr" in struct rte_mem_resource for
> > secondary processes as netvsc will attempt to reference it thus causing a crash.
> > It was initialized for primary processes but not for secondary.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: jerb <jonathan.erb at banduracyber.com>

Please give your complete name.

> Looks good.
> 
> This should also go to stable.

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