Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] event: fix check in ring_init() in event ring code

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 09:36:04 +0100
> From: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> CC: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>,
>  bruce.richardson@intel.com, stable@dpdk.org, thomas@monjalon.net,
>  jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com
> Subject: [PATCH] event: fix check in ring_init() in event ring code
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> This commit fixes a bug in a 32-bit environment where the
> generic ring_init() would fail, but given the interaction
> with memzones the next iteration of the event_ring_autotest
> would actually *pass* because the ring in question would
> exist already an be looked-up.
> 
> This commit rightly error checks the result of ring_init(),
> and calls rte_free() on the memory as required.
> 
> Fixes: dc39e2f359b5 ("eventdev: add ring structure for events")
> Cc: bruce.richardson@intel.com
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>


There is one check-git-log.sh issue

Wrong headline format:
	event: fix check in ring_init() in event ring code

> 
> ---
> 
> Cc: thomas@monjalon.net
> Cc: jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com
> 
> Please consider this for RC3, as it fixes the unit tests
> on 32-bit systems.
> ---
>  lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_ring.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_ring.c b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_ring.c
> index eb67751..5791928 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_ring.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_ring.c
> @@ -82,11 +82,14 @@ rte_event_ring_create(const char *name, unsigned int count, int socket_id,
>         mz = rte_memzone_reserve(mz_name, ring_size, socket_id, mz_flags);
>         if (mz != NULL) {
>                 r = mz->addr;
> -               /*
> -                * no need to check return value here, we already checked the
> -                * arguments above
> -                */
> -               rte_event_ring_init(r, name, requested_count, flags);
> +               /* Check return value in case rte_ring_init() fails on size */
> +               int err = rte_event_ring_init(r, name, requested_count, flags);
> +               if (err) {
> +                       RTE_LOG(ERR, RING, "Ring init failed\n");

shouldn't we do rte_memzone_free(mz);

> +                       rte_free(te);
> +                       rte_rwlock_write_unlock(RTE_EAL_TAILQ_RWLOCK);
> +                       return 0;

It should be return NULL?

> +               }
> 

With above changes:

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>

>                 te->data = (void *) r;
>                 r->r.memzone = mz;
> --
> 2.7.4
>