From: "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
To: "Carew, Alan" <alan.carew@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_eal: FreeBSD contigmem prevent possible buffer overrun during module unload.
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:32:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E115CCD9D858EF4F90C690B0DCB4D8972262CA4C@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413289116-4825-1-git-send-email-alan.carew@intel.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Alan Carew
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 1:19 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_eal: FreeBSD contigmem prevent
> possible buffer overrun during module unload.
>
> The maximum mount contiguous memory regions for FreeBSD is limited by
> RTE_CONTIGMEM_MAX_NUM_BUFS, a pointer to each region is stored in
> static void * contigmem_buffers[RTE_CONTIGMEM_MAX_NUM_BUFS]
>
> A user can specify a greater amount via hw.contigmem.num_buffers,
> while the allocation logic will prevent this allocation from occuring the logic
> in contigmem_unload() will attempt to free hw.contigmem.num_buffers and
> an
> overrun occurs.
>
> This patch limits the freeing to a maximum of
> RTE_CONTIGMEM_MAX_NUM_BUFS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Carew <alan.carew@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-16 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-14 12:18 Alan Carew
2014-10-16 19:32 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo [this message]
2014-10-20 21:48 ` Thomas Monjalon
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