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From: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
To: "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>,
	"olivier.matz@6wind.com" <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mempool: check for invalid args on creation
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 10:15:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62fc89ec-2983-ba7f-0fb4-694c02974da9@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E115CCD9D858EF4F90C690B0DCB4D8977F908ED4@IRSMSX107.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 01.08.2018 21:16, De Lara Guarch, Pablo wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrew Rybchenko [mailto:arybchenko@solarflare.com]
>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2018 4:49 PM
>> To: De Lara Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>;
>> olivier.matz@6wind.com
>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mempool: check for invalid args on creation
>>
>> On 17.07.2018 13:37, Pablo de Lara wrote:
>>> Currently, a mempool can be created if the number of objects is zero
>>> or the size of these is zero.
>>> In these scenarios, rte_mempool_create should return NULL, as the
>>> mempool created is useless.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>    lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>>>    1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
>>> b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
>>> index 8c8b9f809..8c9573f1a 100644
>>> --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
>>> +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
>>> @@ -916,6 +916,18 @@ rte_mempool_create_empty(const char *name,
>>> unsigned n, unsigned elt_size,
>>>
>>>    	mempool_list = RTE_TAILQ_CAST(rte_mempool_tailq.head,
>>> rte_mempool_list);
>>>
>>> +	/* asked for zero items */
>>> +	if (n == 0) {
>>> +		rte_errno = EINVAL;
>>> +		return NULL;
>>> +	}
>> I agree which the check since attempt to populate it will most likely fail with -
>> ENOSPC.
>>
>>> +
>>> +	/* asked for zero-sized elements */
>>> +	if (elt_size == 0) {
>>> +		rte_errno = EINVAL;
>>> +		return NULL;
>>> +	}
>>> +
>> I'm not sure about this one. I could imagine the case when mempool elements
>> are used just as unique markers. So, I'm not sure that we should restrict such
>> usage.
> I can drop this one and send a v2 on the first check. Is that OK?

Yes. Thanks.

Andrew.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-02  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-17 10:37 Pablo de Lara
2018-07-20 15:49 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-08-01 18:16   ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2018-08-02  7:15     ` Andrew Rybchenko [this message]
2018-08-02  0:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Pablo de Lara
2018-08-02 11:10   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-08-05 13:35     ` Thomas Monjalon

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