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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix NULL device argument pointer reference
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:30:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1754125.JGkyPi735h@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181022061516.45912-1-qi.z.zhang@intel.com>

22/10/2018 08:15, Qi Zhang:
> dev->devargs is not initialized for PCI device, so use dev->bus to
> replace dev->devargs->bus to avoid segment fault when hotplug remove
> a PCI device.

It is not really specific to PCI device.
The devargs is not initialized if the device is probed by default policy
(i.e. not in blacklist).

I think we can say that "devargs is not always initialized".

> Fixes: 244d5130719c ("eal: enable hotplug on multi-process")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-22  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-22  6:15 Qi Zhang
2018-10-22  7:30 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-10-22 10:47   ` Thomas Monjalon

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