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From: "Iremonger, Bernard" <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
To: "Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bonding: fix crash when no slave devices
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 17:20:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8CEF83825BEC744B83065625E567D7C219FBFB9B@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56D9C23B.8000508@intel.com>

Hi Ferruh,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh
> Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 5:14 PM
> To: Iremonger, Bernard <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bonding: fix crash when no slave devices
> 
> On 2/23/2016 12:13 PM, Bernard Iremonger wrote:
> > If a bonded device is created when there are no slave devices there is
> > loop in bond_ethdev_promiscous_enable() which results in a
> > segmentation fault.
> > I have applied a similar fix to bond_ethdev_promiscous_disable() where
> > a similar loop could occur.
> >
> > Fixes: 2efb58cbab6e ("bond: new link bonding library")
> > Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c | 6 ++++--
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c
> > b/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c
> > index b63c886..78972fc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c
> > @@ -1870,7 +1870,8 @@ bond_ethdev_promiscuous_enable(struct
> rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
> >  	case BONDING_MODE_TLB:
> >  	case BONDING_MODE_ALB:
> >  	default:
> > -		rte_eth_promiscuous_enable(internals-
> >current_primary_port);
> > +		if (internals->slave_count > 0)
> > +			rte_eth_promiscuous_enable(internals-
> >current_primary_port);
> >  	}
> >  }
> >
> > @@ -1898,7 +1899,8 @@ bond_ethdev_promiscuous_disable(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev)
> >  	case BONDING_MODE_TLB:
> >  	case BONDING_MODE_ALB:
> >  	default:
> > -		rte_eth_promiscuous_disable(internals-
> >current_primary_port);
> > +		if (internals->slave_count > 0)
> > +			rte_eth_promiscuous_disable(internals-
> >current_primary_port);
> >  	}
> >  }
> >
> >
> Hi Bernard,
> 
> The reason of this crash is when there is no slave, the value of
> current_primary_port is 0, which is valid port_id, is this correct?

Yes.

 
> Does it make sense, instead of slave_count check, to make default
> current_primary_port value a non valid port_id, like -1, so
> is_valid_port() check catches it to prevents crash? For this and any other
> cases.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ferruh

I will try initializing current_primary_port to -1 and see if this helps.
Thanks for reviewing.

Regards,

Bernard.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-04 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-23 12:13 Bernard Iremonger
2016-03-04 17:13 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-04 17:20   ` Iremonger, Bernard [this message]
2016-03-07 11:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Bernard Iremonger
2016-03-07 12:14   ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-11 16:40     ` Bruce Richardson

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