From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>,
Chas Williams <chas3@att.com>,
Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>,
Tetsuya Mukawa <mtetsuyah@gmail.com>,
Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>,
Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>,
Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org,
Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers/net: fix segfault in secondary process
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:13:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34e23691-19f9-5c12-eb73-64e87d2f292a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180719093200.6095b52c@xeon-e3>
On 7/19/2018 5:32 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:45:56 +0100
> Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Calling rte_eth_dev_info_get() on secondary process cause a crash
>> because eth_dev->device is not set properly.
>>
>> Fixes: ee27edbe0c10 ("drivers/net: share vdev data to secondary process")
>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>
> Good catch.
>
> Maybe eth_dev should do this for the device drivers?
> Better to make device drivers as simple and safe as possible.
Agreed, let me try to create a helper function for this.
>
> There seem to be a lot of bugs related to secondary process model.
> Do we have a test suite for that.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-20 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-19 16:45 Ferruh Yigit
2018-07-19 16:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-07-20 10:13 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2018-07-19 22:19 ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-07-20 12:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-07-20 12:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-07-20 13:36 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-07-20 14:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-07-26 12:58 ` Thomas Monjalon
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