21.11.7 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

Hi all,

Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.7.

The planned date for the final release is 30th April.

Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.

A release candidate tarball can be found at:

    https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v21.11.7-rc1

These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
    https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/

Thanks.

Kevin

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Ajit Khaparde (2):
      net/bnxt: fix array overflow
      net/bnxt: modify locking for representor Tx

Akhil Goyal (1):
      common/cnxk: fix memory leak in CPT init

Akshay Dorwat (1):
      net/ionic: fix RSS query

Alan Elder (2):
      net: add macros for VLAN metadata parsing
      net/netvsc: fix VLAN metadata parsing

Ali Alnubani (1):
      doc: update link to Windows DevX in mlx5 guide

Andrew Boyer (2):
      net/ionic: fix device close
      doc: fix typos in cryptodev overview

Bing Zhao (3):
      net/mlx5: fix counters map in bonding mode
      net/mlx5: fix age position in hairpin split
      net/mlx5: fix drop action release timing

Bruce Richardson (9):
      kernel/freebsd: fix module build on FreeBSD 14
      build: fix linker warnings about undefined symbols
      net/vmxnet3: fix initialization on FreeBSD
      eventdev: improve Doxygen comments on configure struct
      eventdev: fix Doxygen processing of vector struct
      net/i40e: remove incorrect 16B descriptor read block
      net/iavf: remove incorrect 16B descriptor read block
      net/ice: remove incorrect 16B descriptor read block
      test: do not count skipped tests as executed

Chaoyong He (1):
      net/nfp: fix resource leak for PF initialization

Chengwen Feng (13):
      eal: verify strdup return
      bus/dpaa: verify strdup return
      bus/fslmc: verify strdup return
      bus/vdev: verify strdup return
      dma/idxd: verify strdup return
      event/cnxk: verify strdup return
      net/failsafe: fix memory leak in args parsing
      app/dumpcap: verify strdup return
      app/pdump: verify strdup return
      app/crypto-perf: verify strdup return
      test: verify strdup return
      examples/qos_sched: fix memory leak in args parsing
      net/hns3: remove QinQ insert support for VF

Ciara Power (1):
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix incorrectly setting cipher keys

Dariusz Sosnowski (1):
      net/mlx5: fix VLAN handling in meter split

David Marchand (7):
      hash: remove some dead code
      regexdev: fix logtype register
      ci: update versions of actions in GHA
      vhost: fix virtqueue access check in vhost-user setup
      test/event: skip test if no driver is present
      net/iavf: remove error logs for VLAN offloading
      app/testpmd: fix --stats-period option check

Dengdui Huang (8):
      net/hns3: refactor VF mailbox message struct
      net/hns3: refactor PF mailbox message struct
      net/hns3: fix VF multiple count on one reset
      net/hns3: fix disable command with firmware
      net/hns3: fix reset level comparison
      app/testpmd: fix crash in multi-process forwarding
      net/hns3: refactor send mailbox function
      net/hns3: refactor handle mailbox function

Edwin Brossette (2):
      net/virtio: remove duplicate queue xstats
      net/ixgbevf: fix RSS init for x550 NICs

Eli Britstein (1):
      net/mlx5: prevent ioctl failure log flooding

Emi Aoki (1):
      doc: fix typo in profiling guide

Ferruh Yigit (3):
      common/mlx5: fix calloc parameters
      net/bnx2x: fix calloc parameters
      net/nfp: fix calloc parameters

Fidel Castro (1):
      test/power: fix typo in error message

Flore Norceide (1):
      doc: fix typo in packet framework guide

Ganapati Kundapura (1):
      test/event: fix crash in Tx adapter freeing

Hao Chen (1):
      vhost: fix deadlock during vDPA SW live migration

Harman Kalra (1):
      common/cnxk: fix mbox region copy

Hernan Vargas (1):
      doc: fix configuration in baseband 5GNR driver guide

Holly Nichols (1):
      test/cfgfile: fix typo in error messages

Huisong Li (2):
      doc: add traffic manager in features table
      doc: add link speeds configuration in features table

Jie Hai (4):
      net/hns3: enable PFC for all user priorities
      net/hns3: support new device
      net/axgbe: fix Rx and Tx queue state
      net/nfp: fix Rx and Tx queue state

Jonathan Erb (1):
      telemetry: fix empty JSON dictionaries

Joyce Kong (1):
      config: fix CPU instruction set for cross-build

Kaiwen Deng (2):
      net/i40e: remove redundant judgment in flow parsing
      net/ice: fix tunnel TSO capabilities

Kalesh AP (4):
      net/bnxt: fix 50G and 100G forced speed
      net/bnxt: fix speed change from 200G to 25G on Thor
      net/bnxt: fix backward firmware compatibility
      net/bnxt: fix null pointer dereference

Kevin Traynor (1):
      net/ixgbe: increase VF reset timeout

Kiran Kumar K (1):
      net/cnxk: fix flow RSS configuration

Kishore Padmanabha (1):
      net/bnxt: fix number of Tx queues being created

Kommula Shiva Shankar (1):
      common/cnxk: fix RSS RETA configuration

Konstantin Ananyev (1):
      examples/l3fwd: fix Rx over not ready port

Masoumeh Farhadi Nia (1):
      examples/ipsec-secgw: fix typo in error message

Maxime Coquelin (1):
      vhost: fix memory leak in Virtio Tx split path

Michael Baum (3):
      net/mlx5: fix jump action validation
      net/mlx5: fix GENEVE TLV option management
      common/mlx5: fix duplicate read of general capabilities

Mingjin Ye (1):
      test: fix probing in secondary process

Morten Brørup (3):
      event/dlb2: remove superfluous memcpy
      net/bnx2x: fix warnings about memcpy lengths
      net/mlx5: fix warning about copy length

Nithin Dabilpuram (2):
      common/cnxk: fix Tx MTU configuration
      common/cnxk: fix mbox struct attributes

Pavan Nikhilesh (2):
      event/cnxk: fix dequeue timeout configuration
      doc: fix commands in eventdev test tool guide

Pengfei Sun (1):
      net/mlx5: fix use after free when releasing Tx queues

Qi Zhang (1):
      net/ice: fix link update

Qian Hao (1):
      examples/packet_ordering: fix Rx with reorder mode disabled

Rakesh Kudurumalla (1):
      test/mbuf: fix external mbuf case with assert enabled

Rongwei Liu (1):
      net/mlx5: fix stats query crash in secondary process

Satheesh Paul (1):
      common/cnxk: fix possible out-of-bounds access

Shai Brandes (2):
      net/ena/base: limit exponential backoff
      net/ena/base: restructure interrupt handling

Shaowei Sun (1):
      telemetry: fix connected clients count

Simei Su (1):
      doc: fix default IP fragments maximum in programmer guide

Sivaprasad Tummala (1):
      eal/x86: add AMD vendor check for TSC calibration

Sivaramakrishnan Venkat (1):
      drivers/net: fix buffer overflow for packet types list

Stephen Hemminger (6):
      cryptodev: remove unused extern variable
      doc: add --latencystats option in testpmd guide
      app/testpmd: hide --bitrate-stats in help if disabled
      common/sfc_efx/base: use C11 static assert
      net/tap: do not overwrite flow API errors
      net/tap: fix traffic control handle calculation

Suanming Mou (5):
      app/crypto-perf: fix next segment mbuf
      app/crypto-perf: fix data comparison
      app/crypto-perf: fix encrypt operation verification
      app/crypto-perf: fix out-of-place mbuf size
      app/crypto-perf: add missing op resubmission

Sunil Kumar Kori (1):
      net/cnxk: fix MTU limit

Sunyang Wu (1):
      ethdev: fix NVGRE encap flow action description

Tom Jones (1):
      net/vmxnet3: ignore Rx queue interrupt setup on FreeBSD

Viacheslav Ovsiienko (1):
      net/mlx5: fix error packets drop in regular Rx

Wathsala Vithanage (1):
      net/memif: fix extra mbuf refcnt update in zero copy Tx

Weiguo Li (1):
      net/bnxt: fix deadlock in ULP timer callback

Yunjian Wang (4):
      net/iavf: fix memory leak on security context error
      net/ixgbe: fix memoy leak after device init failure
      net/af_xdp: fix memzone leak on config failure
      net/af_xdp: fix leak on XSK configuration failure