From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: "Fengnan Chang" <changfengnan@bytedance.com>,
andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru, dev@dpdk.org,
"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] mempool: fix rte_mempool_avail_count may segment fault when used in multiprocess
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:29:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y3NN3z2ZVtNj3CCL@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8whTd+WGi4-hDyCNWvXbQ701Q4EH=LfkBajFGh0apRmbQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 08:47:15AM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 2:51 AM Fengnan Chang
> <changfengnan@bytedance.com> wrote:
> >
> > David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> 于2022年11月15日周二 04:44写道:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 9:13 AM changfengnan <changfengnan@bytedance.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > rte_mempool_create put tailq entry into rte_mempool_tailq list before
> > > > populate, and pool_data set when populate. So in multi process, if
> > > > process A create mempool, and process B can get mempool through
> > > > rte_mempool_lookup before pool_data set, if B call rte_mempool_lookup,
> > > > it will cause segment fault.
> > >
> > > I fail to see how pool_data impacts rte_mempool_lookup.
> > > Something is fishy about this commitlog.
> >
> > oh, it's my fault about this commit. correct: if B can get mempool through
> > rte_mempool_lookup before pool_data set, and call rte_mempool_avail_count,
> > it will cause segment fault.
>
> Ok, now it makes more sense :-).
>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Fix this by put tailq entry into rte_mempool_tailq after populate.
> > >
> > > Moving tailq manipulation to rte_mempool_create only, is probably incorrect.
> > > An application is allowed to call rte_mempool_create_empty() and
> > > rte_mempool_populate().
> > >
> > > I did not look in depth, but It is likely the reason why testpmd (as
> > > run with devtools/test-null.sh) won't pass anymore.
> > > The CI reported this issue in various envs.
> > >
> > > We can't take this patch.
> >
> > Yeah, this version makes CI fail.
> > I didn't notice rte_mempool_create_empty will called directly before, maybe
> > add a new flag bit to indicate when to put tailq entry into rte_mempool_tailq
> > list is a better way. If no better idea, I'll send a new version.
>
> I don't think we need an other flag.
> Can we "publish" the mempool at the mempool_ops_alloc_once stage?
The mempool_ops_alloc_once() seems it is the proper place, yes.
Alternatively, I suppose this issue can be fixed in the secondary
application:
- it can wait that the flag RTE_MEMPOOL_F_POOL_CREATED is present before
using the mempool.
- or it can wait the RTE_MEMPOOL_EVENT_READY
- or it can wait that the whole initialization of the primary
application is finished by another mean (a sort of lock). I don't know
the exact use case, but to me, it looks sane to do that, it would
protect from other similar issues.
Olivier
>
>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: changfengnan <changfengnan@bytedance.com>
> > >
> > > Please use your real name.
> >
> > It's my real name.
>
> Sorry, I meant your full name, like Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@bytedance.com>
>
>
> --
> David Marchand
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-15 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-14 7:14 changfengnan
2022-11-14 9:55 ` Morten Brørup
2022-11-14 11:23 ` changfengnan
2022-11-14 20:43 ` David Marchand
2022-11-15 1:51 ` [External] " Fengnan Chang
2022-11-15 7:23 ` Morten Brørup
2022-11-15 7:47 ` David Marchand
2022-11-15 8:29 ` Olivier Matz [this message]
2022-11-15 11:30 ` Fengnan Chang
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