Re: [dpdk-dev] Question about bonding mode set API

["Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>]

Hi, Thomas, Ferruh,
	have any suggustions?

在 2021/10/19 21:34, Min Hu (Connor) 写道:
> Hi, all,
>      I met one questions:
> when I start testpmd, and type command like this, it will
> lead to Segmentation fault, like:
> 
> testpmd> create bonded device 4 0
> testpmd> add bonding slave 0 2
> testpmd> add bonding slave 1 2
> testpmd> port start 2
> testpmd> set bonding mode 0 2
> testpmd> quit
> Stopping port 0...
> Stopping ports...
> Please remove port 0 from bonded device.
> Done
> 
> Stopping port 1...
> Stopping ports...
> Please remove port 1 from bonded device.
> Done
> 
> Stopping port 2...
> Stopping ports...
> Done
> 
> Shutting down port 0...
> Closing ports...
> Please remove port 0 from bonded device.
> Done
> 
> Shutting down port 1...
> Closing ports...
> Please remove port 1 from bonded device.
> Done
> 
> Shutting down port 2...
> Closing ports...
> 0000:7d:00.0 hns3_dev_close(): Close port 0 finished
> Port 0 is closed
> 0000:7d:00.1 hns3_dev_close(): Close port 1 finished
> Port 1 is closed
> Port 2 is closed
> Done
> 
> Bye...
> Segmentation fault
> 
> ***************
> The reason to the bug is that rte timer do not be cancelled when quit.
> That is,
> in 'bond_ethdev_start', resources are alloced according to different
> bonding mode.
> in 'bond_ethdev_stop', resources are free by the corresponding mode.
> 
> For example, 'bond_ethdev_start' start bond_mode_8023ad_ext_periodic_cb
> timer for bonding mode 4. and 'bond_ethdev_stop' cancel the timer only 
> when the current bonding mode is 4.
> If the bonding mode is changed(not 4), and directly quit the process,
> the timer will still on, and freed memory will be accessed, then 
> segmentation fault.
> 
> ***********
> That is just one bug for doing that, any bugs such as
> memory leakage will occur. In my opinion, I think that operation is
> not permitted. we should standardized usage of the API.
> When we want to use 'bond_ethdev_mode_set', we should do like that
> order:
> bond_ethdev_stop
> bond_ethdev_mode_set
> bond_ethdev_start
> 
> Because 'bonding mode'changed means resources changed, we should
> reallocate resources for different mode.
> 
> What is your opinion? wish your reply.
>       Best regards.
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