From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B83108F for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:02:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 25 Jan 2017 06:02:58 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.33,284,1477983600"; d="scan'208";a="1087150571" Received: from rhorton-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [163.33.230.15]) ([163.33.230.15]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 25 Jan 2017 06:02:57 -0800 To: dev@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon References: <1485270071-5407-1-git-send-email-remy.horton@intel.com> From: Remy Horton Organization: Intel Shannon Limited Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:02:56 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1485270071-5407-1-git-send-email-remy.horton@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ethdev: fix multi-process NULL dereference crashes X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:02:59 -0000 On 24/01/2017 15:01, Remy Horton wrote: > Secondary processes were blanket zeroing ethernet device memory, > resulting in NULL dereference crashes in multi-process setups. > > Fixes: 7f95f78a8aea ("ethdev: clear data when allocating device") > > Signed-off-by: Remy Horton Self-NAK: Condition is now tautology on code path that was causing crashes