21.11.8 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 05/09/2024 15:02, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 05/09/2024 14:29, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2024 3:38 PM
>>> To: stable at dpdk.org
>>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>; Ali
>>> Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
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>>> Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas at monjalon.net>;
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>>> Subject: 21.11.8 patches review and test
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.8.
>>>
>>> The planned date for the final release is 18th September.
>>>
>>> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
>>> any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
>>> the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.
>>>
>>> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>>>
>>>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v21.11.8-rc1
>>>
>>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>> ---
>>
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> I see this build failure in Debian 12 and Fedora 40:
>>
>> $ meson --werror --buildtype=debugoptimized build && ninja -C build
>> [..]
>> drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c:916:25: error: 's' may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>>
>> Will update with the rest of our functional testing later during the next couple of weeks.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ali
> 
> ok, thanks. I will check it out.
Hi Ali,

It looks like a false positive, as the stats [0] are initialised in
mtr_stats_convert() before they are used. The code is unchanged since
the last release so probably it's compiler/distro change for this release.

I've built with this meson command using latest gcc and clang on a F40
and not seeing this issue [1].

Are you using same compiler versions ? Any other details needed to
reproduce ?

thanks,
Kevin.

[0]
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/tree/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c?h=21.11#n906

[1]
$ clang --version
clang version 18.1.6 (Fedora 18.1.6-3.fc40)
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 14.2.1 20240801 (Red Hat 14.2.1-1)

commit 680818068d31764357075cde440232ce5ab8b786 (HEAD -> 21.11, tag:
v21.11.8-rc1, origin/21.11)
Author: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 5 10:34:16 2024 +0100

    version: 21.11.8-rc1

e.g.
$ meson --werror --buildtype=debugoptimized build-gcc
...
$ ninja -C build-gcc
ninja: Entering directory `build-gcc'
[3071/3071] Linking target app/test/dpdk-test



> Kevin.