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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: zhoumin <zhoumin@loongson.cn>,
	"Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>,
	 Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, maobibo@loongson.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] vhost: fix build
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:08:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8zqmRFcAGxZPa4sK=c_sAFoTOZMSXf-Kb93UvboLdNscQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b64cde82-62c9-56df-4e71-411bd8b0a606@loongson.cn>

Hello,

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 2:37 PM zhoumin <zhoumin@loongson.cn> wrote:
> >
> > I had seen a similar warning during 22.07 when cross compiling but did
> > not investigate much.
> > The patch that I had written at the time was:
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
> > index 35fa4670fd..9446e33aa7 100644
> > --- a/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
> > +++ b/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
> > @@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ mbuf_to_desc(struct virtio_net *dev, struct
> > vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> >          struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf tmp_hdr, *hdr = NULL;
> >          struct vhost_async *async = vq->async;
> >
> > -       if (unlikely(m == NULL))
> > +       if (unlikely(m == NULL || nr_vec == 0))
> >                  return -1;
> >
> >          buf_addr = buf_vec[vec_idx].buf_addr;
> >
> >
> > Could you see if this fixes your issue?
> >
> > If it is the case, it may be worth better understanding what bothers
> > the compiler in the current code.
> >
> >
> I have verified that the solution you proposed here is effective. It can
> eliminate the GCC warning. But I don't know what this change means for
> the compiler.
>
>  From the programmer's point of view, we can know the binding relationship
> between the `nr_vec` variable and the `buf_vec` array. we can use
> "nr_vec == 0" to determine the validity of the `buf_vec[0]`. But, I'm not
> sure if the compiler knows about it. I cannot explain from the GCC's point
> of view why this modification can eliminate the warning.
>
> However, in terms of correctness, this modification is very reasonable
> because
> the `buf_vec[0]` would be invalid if the `nr_vec` variable equals to
> zero. In
> this case, the function should return.
>
> In addition, we can see that the `buf_vec` array are also used in function
> desc_to_mbuf() from the above calling relationships. Do you think it is
> necessary to add a similar check to this function? like this:

Maxime, Chenbo, can you have a look?
Thanks!

>
> diff --git a/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
> index 9446e33aa7..99233f1759 100644
> --- a/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
> @@ -2673,6 +2673,9 @@ desc_to_mbuf(struct virtio_net *dev, struct
> vhost_virtqueue *vq,
>          struct vhost_async *async = vq->async;
>          struct async_inflight_info *pkts_info;
>
> +       if (unlikely(nr_vec == 0))
> +               return -1;
> +
>          buf_addr = buf_vec[vec_idx].buf_addr;
>          buf_iova = buf_vec[vec_idx].buf_iova;
>          buf_len = buf_vec[vec_idx].buf_len;
>
> I expect this compilation warning can be resolved. Because LoongArch
> cross-compile tools must be based on GCC 12.1 and this compilation warning
> will cause LoongArch CI job to fail.

Agreed.


-- 
David Marchand


      reply	other threads:[~2022-08-25 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-22  7:42 Min Zhou
2022-08-24  0:45 ` zhoumin
2022-08-24 14:09 ` David Marchand
2022-08-25 12:36   ` zhoumin
2022-08-25 14:08     ` David Marchand [this message]

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