Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-ci] [PATCH v2] pmdinfogen: allow padding after NUL terminator

[Lincoln Lavoie <lylavoie@iol.unh.edu>]

Hi Dmitry,

If the failing test is the unit test func_reentrancy_autotest, that is
being looked into , as it seems like the test case does not reliably run.
It passes / fails between different systems running both on bare metal and
in virtual environments, on different OSes and architectures.

Do you have a link to your patch in patchworks or the lab dashboard?

Cheers,
Lincoln



On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 11:52 AM Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2021-05-28 00:24 (UTC+0300), Dmitry Kozlyuk:
> > Size of string constant symbol may be larger than its length
> > measured up to NUL terminator. In this case pmdinfogen included padding
> > bytes after NUL terminator in generated source, yielding incorrect code.
> >
> > Always trim string data to NUL terminator while reading ELF.
> > It was already done for COFF because there's no symbol size.
> >
> > Bugzilla ID: 720
> > Fixes: f0f93a7adfee ("buildtools: use Python pmdinfogen")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > v2: return helper to coff.py, where it's needed (David Marchand).
> >
> >  buildtools/pmdinfogen.py | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py b/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
> > index 7a739ec7d4..2a44f17bda 100755
> > --- a/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
> > +++ b/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
> > @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def __init__(self, image, symbol):
> >      def string_value(self):
> >          size = self._symbol["st_size"]
> >          value = self.get_value(0, size)
> > -        return value[:-1].decode() if value else ""
> > +        return coff.decode_asciiz(value)  # not COFF-specific
> >
> >      def get_value(self, offset, size):
> >          section = self._symbol["st_shndx"]
>
> There are CI failures that seem unrelated to this patch:
> some tests with NICs that I can't check
> and an Arch Linux build failure that I failed to reproduce.
> GitHub Actions are passing.
> Are these known CI bugs or does this patch need any corrections?
>


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