[PATCH] ethdev: validate reserved fields

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 9/21/2023 4:12 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 5/26/2023 9:15 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 01:39:42PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>> The various reserved fields added to ethdev could not be
>>> safely used for future extensions because they were never
>>> checked on input. Therefore ABI would be broken if these
>>> fields were added in a future DPDK release.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 436b3a6b6e62 ("ethdev: reserve space in main structs for extension")
>>> Cc: thomas at monjalon.net
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
>>> ---
>>>  lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
>>>
>> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
>>
> 
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>
> 
> Applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.
>

some unit tests are failing with this patch, both iol and github actions
reports it, need to investigate the root cause.

Based on findings, we may need to drop the patch from next-net, fyi.