Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/vhost: fix return value of vhost creates not checked

[Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 06:38:28AM +0000, wangyunjian wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tiwei Bie [mailto:tiwei.bie@intel.com]
> > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 1:33 PM
> > To: wangyunjian <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; zhihong.wang@intel.com;
> > xudingke <xudingke@huawei.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/vhost: fix return value of vhost creates not checked
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 09:05:59AM +0800, Yunjian Wang wrote:
> > > The function eth_dev_vhost_create() could return errors, the return
> > > value need to be checked.
> > >
> > > Fixes: ee584e9710b9 ("vhost: add driver on top of the library")
> > > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 6 ++++--
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
> > > b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
> > > index 46f01a7..7e4faf2 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
> > > @@ -1455,8 +1455,10 @@ struct vhost_xstats_name_off {
> > >  	if (dev->device.numa_node == SOCKET_ID_ANY)
> > >  		dev->device.numa_node = rte_socket_id();
> > >
> > > -	eth_dev_vhost_create(dev, iface_name, queues, dev->device.numa_node,
> > > -		flags, disable_flags);
> > > +	ret = eth_dev_vhost_create(dev, iface_name, queues,
> > > +			dev->device.numa_node, flags, disable_flags);
> > > +	if (ret == -1)
> > > +		VHOST_LOG(ERR, "Failed to create %s", name);
> > 
> > This will set "ret" to port id on success, but we shouldn't return port id in
> > probe.
> 
> OK, I agree. How about function eth_dev_vhost_create can return 0 on success?

Sounds good to me.

> 
> Thanks
> Yunjian
> 
> > 
> > >
> > >  out_free:
> > >  	rte_kvargs_free(kvlist);
> > > --
> > > 1.8.3.1
> > >
> > >