[PATCH v2 04/19] drivers: add process-type guards for secondary process

Hemant Agrawal hemant.agrawal at nxp.com
Sun Jun 21 12:16:36 CEST 2026


From: Prashant Gupta <prashant.gupta_3 at nxp.com>

Add RTE_PROC_PRIMARY checks in device initialization paths for
net/dpaa, crypto/dpaa_sec and dma/dpaa drivers. Secondary
processes should skip hardware initialization to prevent
segfaults when accessing hardware registers that are only
mapped in the primary process.

Signed-off-by: Prashant Gupta <prashant.gupta_3 at nxp.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/dpaa_sec/dpaa_sec.c | 3 ---
 drivers/dma/dpaa/dpaa_qdma.c       | 4 ++++
 drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c     | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/dpaa_sec/dpaa_sec.c b/drivers/crypto/dpaa_sec/dpaa_sec.c
index 65bbd38b17..36f5819b0e 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/dpaa_sec/dpaa_sec.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/dpaa_sec/dpaa_sec.c
@@ -3783,9 +3783,6 @@ cryptodev_dpaa_sec_probe(struct rte_dpaa_driver *dpaa_drv __rte_unused,
 			RTE_DPAA_MAX_NB_SEC_QPS,
 	};
 
-	if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
-		return 0;
-
 	snprintf(cryptodev_name, sizeof(cryptodev_name), "%s", dpaa_dev->name);
 
 	cryptodev = rte_cryptodev_pmd_create(cryptodev_name, &dpaa_dev->device, &init_params);
diff --git a/drivers/dma/dpaa/dpaa_qdma.c b/drivers/dma/dpaa/dpaa_qdma.c
index 74e23d2ee5..0ede9ee8b5 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dpaa/dpaa_qdma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dpaa/dpaa_qdma.c
@@ -1329,6 +1329,10 @@ dpaa_qdma_init(struct rte_dma_dev *dmadev)
 	int regs_size;
 	int ret;
 	uint32_t i, j, k;
+	char *penv;
+
+	if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
+		return -ENOTSUP;
 
 	if (dpaa_get_devargs(dmadev->device->devargs, DPAA_DMA_ERROR_CHECK)) {
 		s_hw_err_check = true;
diff --git a/drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c
index 8fb2e33e0a..42ab9679d1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c
@@ -2686,6 +2686,9 @@ rte_dpaa_remove(struct rte_dpaa_device *dpaa_dev)
 
 	PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE();
 
+	if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
+		return 0;
+
 	eth_dev = dpaa_dev->eth_dev;
 	dpaa_eth_dev_close(eth_dev);
 	ret = rte_eth_dev_release_port(eth_dev);
-- 
2.25.1



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