From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Jijiang Liu <jijiang.liu@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] lib/lpm:fix an initialization issue of valid_group in the delete_depth_small()
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:24:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151030142425.GC10520@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151030142227.GB10520@bricha3-MOBL3>
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 02:22:27PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 09:14:39PM +0800, Jijiang Liu wrote:
>
> Title can be shortened to: "lpm: fix initialization of valid_group field"
>
> > Fixes an initialization issue of 'valid_group' in the delete_depth_small function.
> >
> > In this function, use new rte_lpm_tbl8_entry we call A to replace the old rte_lpm_tbl8_entry. But the valid_group do not set VALID, so it
> > will be INVALID.
> >
> > Then when adding a new route which depth is > 24,the tbl8_alloc() function will search the rte_lpm_tbl8_entrys to find INVALID
> > valid_group, and it will return the A to the add_depth_big function, so A's data is overridden.
> >
>
> Not sure this message is entirely clear.
> How about:
> When adding an entry to a tbl8, the .valid_group field should always be set,
> so that future adds do not accidently find and use this table, thinking it is
> currently invalid, i.e. unused, and thereby overwrite existing entries.
>
> > Signed-off-by: NaNa <nana.nn@alibaba-inc.com>
> >
Assuming we get a little cleanup on commit title and log message (Thomas, perhaps
just a rewrite on commit?):
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-30 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-30 13:14 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix two issues in lpm Jijiang Liu
2015-10-30 13:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] lib/lpm:fix an issue of condition check in delete_depth_small() Jijiang Liu
2015-10-30 14:13 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-30 13:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] lib/lpm:fix an initialization issue of valid_group in the delete_depth_small() Jijiang Liu
2015-10-30 14:22 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-30 14:24 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2015-10-30 14:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-30 14:56 ` Richardson, Bruce
2015-11-02 8:05 ` Liu, Jijiang
2015-11-01 18:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix two issues in lpm Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-02 8:09 ` Liu, Jijiang
2015-11-02 8:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-02 8:34 ` Liu, Jijiang
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