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To: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>, dev@dpdk.org,
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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/virtio: fix incorrect cast of void *
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On 12/14/2017 03:33 PM, Olivier Matz wrote:
> From: Didier Pallard <didier.pallard@6wind.com>
> 
> The rx_queues and tx_queues fields of the data structure points to a struct
> virtnet_rx or virtnet_tx. Casting it to a virtqueue is an error.
> 
> It does not trigger any bug because pointer is not dereferenced inside the
> function, but it can become a bug if this code is copy/pasted and vq is
> dereferenced.
> 
> Fixes: 01ad44fd374f ("net/virtio: split Rx/Tx queue")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Didier Pallard <didier.pallard@6wind.com>
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> index c0ba83b06..b398f9960 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> @@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ static int virtio_dev_xstats_get_names(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
>   		/* Note: limit checked in rte_eth_xstats_names() */
>   
>   		for (i = 0; i < dev->data->nb_rx_queues; i++) {
> -			struct virtqueue *rxvq = dev->data->rx_queues[i];
> +			struct virtnet_rx *rxvq = dev->data->rx_queues[i];
>   			if (rxvq == NULL)
>   				continue;
>   			for (t = 0; t < VIRTIO_NB_RXQ_XSTATS; t++) {
> @@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ static int virtio_dev_xstats_get_names(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
>   		}
>   
>   		for (i = 0; i < dev->data->nb_tx_queues; i++) {
> -			struct virtqueue *txvq = dev->data->tx_queues[i];
> +			struct virtnet_tx *txvq = dev->data->tx_queues[i];
>   			if (txvq == NULL)
>   				continue;
>   			for (t = 0; t < VIRTIO_NB_TXQ_XSTATS; t++) {
> 

Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Maxime