Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] cryptodev: fix NULL pointer dereference

["De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
> Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 11:18 AM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Cc: De Lara Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>;
> dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cryptodev: fix NULL pointer dereference
> 
> On 01/08/2017 10:35, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 01/08/2017 10:13, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy:
> >> On 31/07/2017 20:33, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>> 31/07/2017 11:18, Pablo de Lara:
> >>>> When register a crypto driver, a cryptodev driver structure was
> >>>> being allocated, using malloc.
> >>>> Since this call may fail, it is safer to allocate this memory
> >>>> statically in each PMD, so driver registration will never fail.
> >>>>
> >>>> Coverity issue: 158645
> >>>>
> >>>> Fixes: 7a364faef185 ("cryptodev: remove crypto device type
> >>>> enumeration")
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>
> >>>> Changes in v2:
> >>>>
> >>>> - Allocate statically the cryptodev driver structure,
> >>>>     instead of using malloc, that can potentially fail.
> >>>>
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/aesni_gcm/aesni_gcm_pmd.c    |  5 ++++-
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/aesni_mb/rte_aesni_mb_pmd.c  |  6 +++++-
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/armv8/rte_armv8_pmd.c        |  9 ++++++---
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/dpaa2_sec/dpaa2_sec_dpseci.c |  5 ++++-
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/kasumi/rte_kasumi_pmd.c      |  5 ++++-
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/null/null_crypto_pmd.c       |  5 ++++-
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/openssl/rte_openssl_pmd.c    |  5 ++++-
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/qat/rte_qat_cryptodev.c      |  7 +++++--
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/scheduler/scheduler_pmd.c    |  5 ++++-
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/snow3g/rte_snow3g_pmd.c      |  5 ++++-
> >>>>    drivers/crypto/zuc/rte_zuc_pmd.c            |  5 ++++-
> >>>>    lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.c        | 18 +++++------------
> >>>>    lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h        | 20 -------------------
> >>>>    lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev_pmd.h    | 30
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>    14 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
> >>> This is a big change for a small/unlikely issue.
> >>> The main benefit of this patch is an allocation cleanup.
> >>> I think it is better to wait 17.11 cycle to integrate it.
> >> We initially thought of exit given that it is a constructor and if
> >> you fail to allocate memory at this stage, things are likely not
> >> going to work out anyway.
> > You don't know how the application wants to manage it.
> 
> IMHO setting an internal variable indicating an error in constructors and
> then reporting the problem during EAL init seems overly complex.
> I think the proposed change is a cleaner solution.
> 
> >> The patch is an API change, do we really want to break again (we are
> >> breaking in this release) next release?
> > Good question. Any opinions?
> 
> Merge the patch unless there are already outstanding and/or planned
> changes for the next release that are going to break ABI/API?

There is another patchset that was postponed for next release, because the
compilation was broken in one of the patches (just double checked and it is easy to fix),
and by then, I thought that no ABI/API was being broken,
but it will be (my bad here). This is the patchset I am talking about:

[PATCH v2 0/4] cryptodev vdev changes for -rc2
 http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-July/071160.html

So we have two options here:
1 - Get both patches now, since we are breaking the ABI in this release (as Sergio pointed out).
2 - Postpone both changes to next release.

I would go for option 1, as there are no other changes expected for next release
(only one function, rte_cryptodev_create_vdev, will be removed).

Thanks,
Pablo

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Sergio