Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/virtio: fix incorrect cast of void *

[Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 03:49:32PM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> 
> 
> 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>

Applied to dpdk-next-virtio.

Thanks.

	--yliu