From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] ethdev: prevent segfaults in rte_eth_dev_is_detachable
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 12:19:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALwxeUvb58juALvGn2Lt9doYrfx0rbQCYWL0q1SSV2jHfm8HbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1835472.4si0y6iqvT@xps13>
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
wrote:
> 2015-10-29 09:55, David Marchand:
> > From: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy@6wind.com>
> >
> > Some drivers like virtual ones don't specify any driver pointer in the
> > structure rte_eth_dev.
> >
> > To prevent segfault, we should check if this pointer is NULL before
> > dereferencing it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy@6wind.com>
> > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
>
> It is not clear what the problem is.
> And the driver fields should probably be removed or changed as it too
> tigthly
> related to the PCI driver.
>
It does look odd to me as well, quickly went through head, and did not see
a case where this could happen.
Maxime is not available at the moment, so I think I will just drop this
patch.
How about this patchset rebased on head with just the first two patches ?
--
David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-03 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-29 8:55 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] export hotplug capability David Marchand
2015-10-29 8:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] ethdev: rework value return by rte_eth_dev_is_detachable David Marchand
2015-10-29 8:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] ethdev: export rte_eth_dev_is_detachable function David Marchand
2015-10-29 8:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] ethdev: prevent segfaults in rte_eth_dev_is_detachable David Marchand
2015-11-03 11:10 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-03 11:19 ` David Marchand [this message]
2015-11-03 11:20 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-03 11:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] export hotplug capability David Marchand
2015-11-03 11:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] ethdev: rework value return by rte_eth_dev_is_detachable David Marchand
2015-11-03 11:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] ethdev: export rte_eth_dev_is_detachable function David Marchand
2015-11-03 13:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-04 7:49 ` David Marchand
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