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* Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] common/qat: fix uninitialized variable bug
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@ 2020-07-26 19:19       ` Akhil Goyal
  2020-07-29 13:19         ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Akhil Goyal @ 2020-07-26 19:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Trahe, Fiona, Dybkowski, AdamX, dev; +Cc: stable

> >
> > [Adam] The ret variable value (signed) is not returned directly, please check the
> rest of this function in src
> > code. This is just checked to calculate how many ops were enqueued. And if all
> checks skip (meaning the
> > op was not processed by sym crypto, asym crypto nor compression), we
> should note the user that the
> > actual op was NOT enqueued. That's why ret is set to -1.
> [Fiona] ok. makes sense thanks. In that case
> Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Applied to dpdk-next-crypto

Thanks

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* Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] common/qat: fix uninitialized variable bug
  2020-07-26 19:19       ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] common/qat: fix uninitialized variable bug Akhil Goyal
@ 2020-07-29 13:19         ` Thomas Monjalon
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Monjalon @ 2020-07-29 13:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Trahe, Fiona, Dybkowski, AdamX, Akhil Goyal; +Cc: dev, stable

26/07/2020 21:19, Akhil Goyal:
> > >
> > > [Adam] The ret variable value (signed) is not returned directly, please check the
> > rest of this function in src
> > > code. This is just checked to calculate how many ops were enqueued. And if all
> > checks skip (meaning the
> > > op was not processed by sym crypto, asym crypto nor compression), we
> > should note the user that the
> > > actual op was NOT enqueued. That's why ret is set to -1.
> > [Fiona] ok. makes sense thanks. In that case
> > Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
> 
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Applied to dpdk-next-crypto


This patch should not have been merged.
The explanation is missing.

This is the commit log:
"This patch fixes the uninitialized variable bug in QAT PMD."

We don't even know what is the consequence and the scope.
That's not acceptable for a fix.



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