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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: huawei.xie@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: fix off-by-one error on nr_desc check
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:24:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160725152412.GS28708@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1469455798-19790-1-git-send-email-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 04:09:58PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> nr_desc is not an index but the number of descriptors,
> so can be equal to the virtqueue size.
> 
> Fixes: a436f53ebfeb ("vhost: avoid dead loop chain")
> 
> Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

Thanks for catching it!

> ---
> Hi Yuanhan,
> 
> I faced the bug while testing my indirect descriptor patch, it happens
> as soon as the number of chained descritors is above 2.
> 
> But the bug may in theory also be faced with normal descriptors,

In theory, yes, and only in one case, that there is a Tx has 256
descriptors chained. If that happens, I doubt things work well.
So I would say it just happens __in theory__.

> so it might
> be good to have it 16.07?

Even though, it apparently fixes a bug, so I think we could have it
for 16.07.

Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>

	--yliu

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-25 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-25 14:09 Maxime Coquelin
2016-07-25 15:24 ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2016-07-25 15:28   ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-07-25 15:47   ` Thomas Monjalon

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