Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v17.11 LTS] vhost: fix payload size of reply

[Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>]

> On Feb 26, 2019, at 2:21 AM, Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> [ upstream commit 57b4d90b5893db2678ca3e28c50e1fcd37bb9b91 ]
> 
> QEMU doesn't expect any payload for the reply of
> VHOST_USER_SET_LOG_BASE request, so don't send any.
> Note that the Vhost-user specification isn't clear about
> it and would need to be fixed.
> 
> Fixes: 54f9e32305d4 ("vhost: handle dirty pages logging request")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Reported-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> ---

Applied to stable/17.11

Thanks,
Yongseok

> lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
> index d70778b22..74c286e34 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
> @@ -1437,8 +1437,11 @@ vhost_user_msg_handler(int vid, int fd)
> 	case VHOST_USER_SET_LOG_BASE:
> 		vhost_user_set_log_base(dev, &msg);
> 
> -		/* it needs a reply */
> -		msg.size = sizeof(msg.payload.u64);
> +		/*
> +		 * The spec is not clear about it (yet), but QEMU doesn't
> +		 * expect any payload in the reply.
> +		 */
> +		msg.size = 0;
> 		send_vhost_reply(fd, &msg);
> 		break;
> 	case VHOST_USER_SET_LOG_FD:
> -- 
> 2.20.1
>