From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Trahe, Fiona" <fiona.trahe@intel.com>,
"Dybkowski, AdamX" <adamx.dybkowski@intel.com>,
Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, "stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] common/qat: fix uninitialized variable bug
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:19:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4451101.0yOHXH3JGe@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR04MB316817C5743C98EACAA2FD22E6750@VI1PR04MB3168.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>
26/07/2020 21:19, Akhil Goyal:
> > >
> > > [Adam] The ret variable value (signed) is not returned directly, please check the
> > rest of this function in src
> > > code. This is just checked to calculate how many ops were enqueued. And if all
> > checks skip (meaning the
> > > op was not processed by sym crypto, asym crypto nor compression), we
> > should note the user that the
> > > actual op was NOT enqueued. That's why ret is set to -1.
> > [Fiona] ok. makes sense thanks. In that case
> > Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
>
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> Applied to dpdk-next-crypto
This patch should not have been merged.
The explanation is missing.
This is the commit log:
"This patch fixes the uninitialized variable bug in QAT PMD."
We don't even know what is the consequence and the scope.
That's not acceptable for a fix.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-29 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-24 9:40 Adam Dybkowski
2020-07-24 11:54 ` Trahe, Fiona
2020-07-24 11:58 ` Dybkowski, AdamX
2020-07-24 12:20 ` Trahe, Fiona
2020-07-26 19:19 ` Akhil Goyal
2020-07-29 13:19 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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