Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virtio: fix crashes in virtio stats functions

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:48:41AM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 09:45:19AM +0000, Bernard Iremonger wrote:
> > This initialisation of nb_rx_queues and nb_tx_queues has been removed
> > from eth_virtio_dev_init.
> > 
> > The nb_rx_queues and nb_tx_queues were being initialised in eth_virtio_dev_init
> > before the tx_queues and rx_queues arrays were allocated.
> > 
> > The arrays are allocated when the ethdev port is configured and the
> > nb_tx_queues and nb_rx_queues are initialised.
> > 
> > If any of the following functions were called before the ethdev
> > port was configured there was a segmentation fault because
> > rx_queues and tx_queues were NULL:
> > 
> > rte_eth_stats_get
> > rte_eth_stats_reset
> > rte_eth_xstats_get
> > rte_eth_xstats_reset
> > 
> > Fixes: 823ad647950a ("virtio: support multiple queues")
> > Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 	--yliu

Applied to dpdk-next-net/rel_16_04

/Bruce