From: "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>,
"Jerin Jacob" <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
Andrew Rybchenko <Andrew.Rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"olivier.matz@6wind.com" <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
"jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Questions about API with no parameter check
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 17:00:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c9cf548-e824-d5b2-9b6c-a50b8c50fc7b@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4281358.EOTebcGJYR@thomas>
在 2021/4/8 16:22, Thomas Monjalon 写道:
> 08/04/2021 03:06, Min Hu (Connor):
>> Thanks all,
>> Well, Most people who replied support input verification for APIs.
>> As the APIs are in control path APIs, so checking all input is OK.
>>
>> This is a large project because there are so many APIs and libs in DPDK.
>> I will send a set of patches to fix that.
>>
>> Thomas, Ferruh, and others, any opinions ?
>
> Let's start with ethdev and we'll see if it looks a good addition,
> and if it is well accepted in the community.
> Thanks
>
Got it, thanks Thomas. I will send one patch to fix ethdev.
>
>> 在 2021/4/8 0:26, Burakov, Anatoly 写道:
>>> On 07-Apr-21 5:10 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>>>> On 4/7/2021 4:25 PM, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4/7/2021 8:10 PM, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 6:20 AM Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:23 PM Ananyev, Konstantin
>>>>>>> <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 07/04/2021 13:28, Min Hu (Connor):
>>>>>>>>>> Hi, all,
>>>>>>>>>> Many APIs in DPDK does not check if the pointer parameter is
>>>>>>>>>> NULL or not. For example, in 'rte_ethdev.c':
>>>>>>>>>> int
>>>>>>>>>> rte_eth_rx_queue_setup(uint16_t port_id, uint16_t rx_queue_id,
>>>>>>>>>> uint16_t nb_rx_desc, unsigned int socket_id,
>>>>>>>>>> const struct rte_eth_rxconf *rx_conf,
>>>>>>>>>> struct rte_mempool *mp)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> int
>>>>>>>>>> rte_eth_link_get(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_eth_link *eth_link)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> int
>>>>>>>>>> rte_eth_stats_get(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_eth_stats *stats)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> int
>>>>>>>>>> rte_eth_dev_info_get(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_eth_dev_info
>>>>>>>>>> *dev_info)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> As these APIs could be used by any APPs, if the APP give NULL as
>>>>>>>>>> the pointer parameter, segmetation default will occur.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> So, my question is, should we add check in the API? like that,
>>>>>>>>>> int rte_eth_stats_get(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_eth_stats
>>>>>>>>>> *stats)
>>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>>> if (stats == NULL)
>>>>>>>>>> return -EINVAL;
>>>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Or, that is redundant, the parameter correctness should be
>>>>>>>>>> guaranteed by
>>>>>>>>>> the APP?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What's your opinion? Hope for your reply.
>>>>>>>>> I remember it has been discussed in the past (many years ago),
>>>>>>>>> and the opinion was to not clutter the code for something that
>>>>>>>>> is a basic fault from the app.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I don't have a strong opinion.
>>>>>>>>> What is your opinion? Others?
>>>>>>>> As I can see these are control path functions.
>>>>>>>> So some extra formal parameters check wouldn't hurt.
>>>>>>>> +1 from me to add them.
>>>>>>> +1 to add more sanity checks in control path APIs
>>>>>> +1
>>>>>> But are we going to check all parameters?
>>>>>
>>>>> +1
>>>>>
>>>>> It may be better to limit the number of checks.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +1 to verify input for APIs.
>>>>
>>>> Why not do all, what is the downside of checking all input for control
>>>> path APIs?
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Don't have anything useful to add that hasn't already been said, but
>>> seems like a nice +1-train going on here, so i thought i'd hop on board :D
>>>
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-08 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 11:28 Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-07 11:40 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-07 11:48 ` Liang Ma
2021-04-07 11:53 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-04-07 13:19 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-04-07 14:40 ` Ajit Khaparde
2021-04-07 15:25 ` Hemant Agrawal
2021-04-07 16:10 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-07 16:26 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-04-08 1:06 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-08 8:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-08 9:00 ` Min Hu (Connor) [this message]
2021-04-29 16:16 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-04-29 18:49 ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-30 0:15 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-05-03 15:19 ` Morten Brørup
2021-05-04 9:36 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-05-05 15:58 ` Tyler Retzlaff
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