From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23286A48C; Fri, 8 Jun 2018 10:56:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 08 Jun 2018 01:56:07 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.49,490,1520924400"; d="scan'208";a="62360875" Received: from kraken.imu.intel.com (HELO Sent) ([10.217.246.153]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with SMTP; 08 Jun 2018 01:56:05 -0700 Received: by Sent (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:41:27 +0200 From: Dariusz Stojaczyk To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Dariusz Stojaczyk , olivier.matz@6wind.com, stable@dpdk.org Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:37:07 +0200 Message-Id: <1528461427-164113-2-git-send-email-dariuszx.stojaczyk@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1528461427-164113-1-git-send-email-dariuszx.stojaczyk@intel.com> References: <1528461427-164113-1-git-send-email-dariuszx.stojaczyk@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] eal/thread: fix return codes for rte_ctrl_thread_create() X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 08:56:08 -0000 This function returned positive error numbers instead of negative ones as desbribed in the doc. What's worse, multiple of its callers only check for (rc < 0) to detect failure. It was incorrectly assumed that pthread_create and pthread_setaffinity_np return negative errnos. They always returns positive ones, so this patch negates their return values before returning. Fixes: 9e5afc72c909 ("eal: add function to create control threads") Cc: olivier.matz@6wind.com Cc: stable@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Dariusz Stojaczyk --- lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c index 8110ac2..48ef4d6 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ rte_ctrl_thread_create(pthread_t *thread, const char *name, params = malloc(sizeof(*params)); if (!params) - return -1; + return -ENOMEM; params->start_routine = start_routine; params->arg = arg; @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ rte_ctrl_thread_create(pthread_t *thread, const char *name, ret = pthread_create(thread, attr, rte_thread_init, (void *)params); if (ret != 0) { free(params); - return ret; + return -ret; } if (name != NULL) { @@ -228,5 +228,5 @@ rte_ctrl_thread_create(pthread_t *thread, const char *name, } pthread_cancel(*thread); pthread_join(*thread, NULL); - return ret; + return -ret; } -- 2.7.4