From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/vmxnet3: handle bad host framing
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 17:15:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d105257d-915d-5a6a-be31-965b93a04ad2@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <260BA1B6-74AE-40D4-B415-E566C570D202@vmware.com>
On 5/13/2020 11:24 PM, Yong Wang wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 1:40 PM
> To: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
> Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] net/vmxnet3: handle bad host framing
>
> The VMXNet3 protocol has a start-of-packet (SOP) and end-of-packet (EOP)
> marker. If there was a bug where mbuf arrived without SOP the code
> that chains the mbuf would dereference a null pointer.
> Also, record any mbuf's dropped in statistics.
>
> Although did the initial code no longer have access to VMware.
> Compile tested only!
>
> Coverity issue: 124563
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> ---
>
> <Acked-by> Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
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2020-05-12 20:40 Stephen Hemminger
2020-05-13 22:24 ` Yong Wang
2020-05-14 16:15 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
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