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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "tgw_team(腾讯网关团队)" <tgw_team@tencent.com>
Cc: Tencent TGW team <quzeyao@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] rte_ethdev: fix unsafe memory access by calling RX callback.(Internet mail)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 09:37:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200304093747.64f1f251@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e10f1c2b999c4e4e818d05e2c16ef2d7@tencent.com>

On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 16:38:13 +0000
tgw_team(腾讯网关团队) <tgw_team@tencent.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I`ll use a real name in patch v2.
> 
> I don't think this is a TOCTOU question.
> The original code works fine when compiled with the -O3 option.
> At this point the compiler will optimize to one memory access.
> But when compiled with -O0, there will be two memory accesses, which is wrong.
> This change was modified with reference to the rte_eth_tx_burst function.

There is nothing C standard that says compiler has to do it either way.
The optimizer may decide to do two memory accesses or one.
Depending on that in anyway is bad practice.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-04 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-04 14:05 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] rte_ethdev: fix unsafe memory access by calling RX callback Tencent TGW team
2020-03-04 14:16 ` Andrew Rybchenko
     [not found]   ` <61a6b7d5533643d692c40dc0ab1a2cdc@tencent.com>
2020-03-04 16:26     ` tgw_team
2020-03-04 16:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-03-04 16:38   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] rte_ethdev: fix unsafe memory access by calling RX callback.(Internet mail) tgw_team
2020-03-04 17:37     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-03-04 17:44       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] rte_ethdev: fix unsafe memory access by calling RX callback tgw_team
2020-03-04 17:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] rte_ethdev: safer memory access by calling Rx callback ZY Qiu
2020-03-04 17:56   ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-03-04 18:31     ` tgw_team
2020-03-05  9:19   ` Bruce Richardson
2020-03-05 11:27     ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-03-05 14:23       ` tgw_team
2020-03-05 14:47       ` Liang, Ma
2020-03-05 15:19         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-03-05 15:42           ` Liang, Ma
2020-03-05 16:47   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] rte_ethdev: safer memory access by calling Rx/Tx callback ZY Qiu
2020-03-05 17:23     ` Jerin Jacob
2020-03-11 12:22     ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-03-11 12:26       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-10-01 15:14         ` Ferruh Yigit

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