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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: check mbuf refcnt when clearing RX/TX ring
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 17:04:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150703160425.GC8096@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1879755.kzD1mjHoUo@xps13>

On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 05:46:55PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-07-03 16:40, Bruce Richardson:
> > The function to clear the TX ring when a port was being closed, e.g. on
> > exit in testpmd, was not checking the mbuf refcnt before freeing it.
> > Since the function in the vector driver to clear the ring after TX does
> > not set the pointer to NULL post-free, this caused crashes if mbuf
> > debugging was turned on.
> 
> Please, could you add a Fixes: line to reference the origin of the bug?
> Thanks

What benefit does that information provide? Given that this bug occurs in
two places in the code, and has been there for some time, I'm not sure that a
straight lookup of the commit that last changed the line(s) would identify the
true source of the bug. Because of that, I'd like to know the information is
really going to be useful before making an effort to track it down. :-)

/Bruce

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-03 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-03 15:40 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Fix crash with vpmd and mbuf debug Bruce Richardson
2015-07-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: add "cold" attribute to setup/teardown fns Bruce Richardson
2015-07-03 15:45   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-03 15:56     ` Bruce Richardson
2015-07-03 19:57       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-06  9:20         ` Bruce Richardson
2015-07-06  9:26           ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-03 23:03   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-07-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: check mbuf refcnt when clearing RX/TX ring Bruce Richardson
2015-07-03 15:46   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-03 16:04     ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2015-07-03 19:52       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-20  9:36   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-07-20  9:47     ` Richardson, Bruce
2015-07-06 15:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Fix crash with vpmd and mbuf debug Thomas Monjalon

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