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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Enforce checking on flag values in API's
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:28:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200428102825.GB1897@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200427231625.10135-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 04:16:21PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The DPDK API's are lax about checking for undefined flag values.
> This makes it impossible to add new bits to existing API's
> without causing ABI breakage. This means we end up doing unnecessary
> symbol versioning just to work around applications that might
> pass in naughty bits.
> 
> This is the DPDK analog of the Linux kernel openat() problem.
> Openat api was added but since kernel did not check flags it
> ended up that another syscall openat2() was necessary before
> the flags could be used.
> 
> v3 - define mask based on existing defines for ring and hash
> 
> Stephen Hemminger (4):
>   ring: future proof flag settings
>   hash: check flags on creation
>   stack: check flags on creation
>   cfgfile: check flags value
> 
>  lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c  |  4 ++++
>  lib/librte_hash/rte_cuckoo_hash.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.c        | 12 ++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_stack/rte_stack.c      |  5 +++++
>  4 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
> 
I think this is a good idea to do in DPDK

Series-acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-28 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-12 23:08 [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/4] Enforce flag checking " Stephen Hemminger
2020-02-12 23:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/4] ring: future proof flag settings Stephen Hemminger
2020-02-13 11:12   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-02-12 23:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 2/4] hash: check flags on creation Stephen Hemminger
2020-02-12 23:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 3/4] stack: " Stephen Hemminger
2020-02-12 23:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 4/4] cfgfile: check flags value Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-24 17:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] enforce checking on flag values in API's Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-24 17:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] ring: future proof flag settings Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-24 18:07     ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-04-24 19:02       ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-25  9:20         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-04-24 17:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] hash: check flags on creation Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-24 17:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] stack: " Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-24 17:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] cfgfile: check flags value Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-27 23:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Enforce checking on flag values in API's Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-27 23:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] ring: future proof flag settings Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-28  4:12     ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-04-27 23:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] hash: check flags on creation Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-29  1:08     ` Wang, Yipeng1
2020-04-27 23:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] stack: " Stephen Hemminger
2020-05-02  2:36     ` Eads, Gage
2020-04-27 23:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] cfgfile: check flags value Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-28 10:24     ` Bruce Richardson
2020-04-28 10:28   ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2020-06-16 15:47     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Enforce checking on flag values in API's Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-28 11:04   ` Ananyev, Konstantin

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