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From: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com, fiona.trahe@intel.com,
	akhil.goyal@nxp.com
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib/crypto: clarify when it's ok to clear private session data
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 11:36:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1526985411-17739-1-git-send-email-fiona.trahe@intel.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
index 2fb6563..eb6c66f 100644
--- a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
@@ -952,7 +952,9 @@ struct rte_cryptodev_sym_session *
 
 /**
  * Frees private data for the device id, based on its device type,
- * returning it to its mempool.
+ * returning it to its mempool. It is the application's responsibility
+ * to ensure that private session data is not cleared while there are
+ * still in-flight operations using it.
  *
  * @param   dev_id   ID of device that uses the session.
  * @param   sess     Session containing the reference to the private data
-- 
1.7.0.7

             reply	other threads:[~2018-05-22 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-22 10:36 Fiona Trahe [this message]
2018-05-22 11:07 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2018-05-22 12:44   ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo

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