Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/virtio: fix wrong variable assignment in helper macro

[Vipul Ashri <vipul.ashri@oracle.com>]

Hi All

This patch needs to get reviewed by all available reviewers as link came visible now.

@Xia Chenbo, As you have already reviewed so here I request you to share your review vote again and Ack if possible.

@Ferruh, Below link is correct patch, I appreciate and thank you very much for your help.

Patch Link:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?submitter=1867__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!JuQy9aSMyTDxpgEERG6JThvjCeZ0vbjYktEIDtU-JSHQalUpEoAp3u4diGxyy98kmw$


Regards
Vipul

-----Original Message-----
From: Ferruh Yigit [mailto:ferruh.yigit@intel.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 19 August, 2020 0:15
To: Vipul Ashri <vipul.ashri@oracle.com>; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org; stable@dpdk.org; Wang, Zhihong <zhihong.wang@intel.com>; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com
Cc: Edwin Leung <edwin.leung@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/virtio: fix wrong variable assignment in helper macro

On 8/14/2020 6:23 AM, Vipul Ashri wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I tried twice uploading this same patch but it is still not listed under https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!JuQy9aSMyTDxpgEERG6JThvjCeZ0vbjYktEIDtU-JSHQalUpEoAp3u4diGy8g7AhJA$ .
> Please let me know if I am missing something and required to do some additional steps to submit my patch.

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Your patches were hold in the administration queue because of that, I have released them and cleaned up the patchwork (since there were double of some
versions) and only left one copy of v3, please check if that is the correct one:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?submitter=1867__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!JuQy9aSMyTDxpgEERG6JThvjCeZ0vbjYktEIDtU-JSHQalUpEoAp3u4diGxyy98kmw$ 

> 
> Thanks to Xia  for reviewing this code!
> 
> Regards
> Vipul
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xia, Chenbo [mailto:chenbo.xia@intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, 14 August, 2020 6:56
> To: Vipul Ashri <vipul.ashri@oracle.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Edwin Leung <edwin.leung@oracle.com>; stable@dpdk.org; Wang, 
> Zhihong <zhihong.wang@intel.com>; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v3] net/virtio: fix wrong variable assignment in 
> helper macro
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vipul Ashri <vipul.ashri@oracle.com>
>> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 12:22 AM
>> To: dev@dpdk.org
>> Cc: Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia@intel.com>; vipul.ashri@oracle.com; 
>> edwin.leung@oracle.com; stable@dpdk.org; Wang, Zhihong 
>> <zhihong.wang@intel.com>; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com
>> Subject: [PATCH v3] net/virtio: fix wrong variable assignment in 
>> helper macro
>>
>> Inside Macro ASSIGN_UNLESS_EQUAL(var, val), assignment to var is 
>> always failing as assignment done using var_ having local scope only.
>> This leads to TX packets not going out and found broken due to 
>> cleanup malfunctioning. This patch fixes the wrong variable assignment.
>>
>> Fixes: 57f90f894588 ("net/virtio: reuse packed ring functions")
>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vipul Ashri <vipul.ashri@oracle.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h | 6 ++----
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h 
>> b/drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h index 105a9c00c..20c95471e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h
>> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h
>> @@ -607,10 +607,8 @@ virtqueue_notify(struct virtqueue *vq)
>>
>>  /* avoid write operation when necessary, to lessen cache issues */
>>  #define ASSIGN_UNLESS_EQUAL(var, val) do {	\
>> -	typeof(var) var_ = (var);		\
>> -	typeof(val) val_ = (val);		\
>> -	if ((var_) != (val_))			\
>> -		(var_) = (val_);		\
>> +	if ((var) != (val))			\
>> +		(var) = (val);			\
>>  } while (0)
>>
>>  #define virtqueue_clear_net_hdr(hdr) do {		\
>> --
>> 2.28.0.windows.1
> 
> Reviewed-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
>