Re: [dpdk-stable] patch 'net/vhost: fix double free of MAC address' has been queued to LTS release 18.11.1

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 01/09/2019 07:39 AM, Hideyuki Yamashita wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
> 
> Thanks for your answering.
> Basic questions to ask.
> 
> Q1. When 18.11.1 will be released?
> 11st January?
> 
Hi,

It will definitely be later than that date. I would like to get the
relevant fixes that are part of DPDK19.02 into 18.11.1 but I will need
to check with the other maintainers about their experience of
synchronizing stable releases with master releases.

It also depends on availability of validation teams. If you are using
DPDK LTS, I would encourage you to test the LTS release candidates and
share your results. It benefits everyone if a bug is caught at that
stage :-)

> Q2. Let us assume that I submit another patch
> to dev@dpdk.org CCed stable@dpdk.org.
> Target stable release version is 18.11.2?
> If yes, when the above release will be available?
> Where can I get such a schedule?
> 

Release cadence is listed here:
http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/stable.html#lts-release

Kevin.

> Note that so far I did not subscribe to stable mailing list.
> (I just subscribed that)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> BR,
> Hideyuki Yamashita
> NTT TechnoCross
> 
>> On 01/07/2019 12:04 AM, Hideyuki Yamashita wrote:
>>> Hello Kevin,
>>>
>>
>> Hi Hideyuki,
>>
>>> Thanks for your answering me.
>>>
>>> I understand that now my patch is queued to LTS 18.11.1.
>>>
>>> I would like to ask general rules which kind of patch is queued
>>> to LTS and which is not.
>>> (If I CCed stable@dpdk.org when I submmit patch, it is automatically 
>>> queued? If that is true then how (or where) can I watch the status
>>> of my patch?)
>>>
>>
>> In short yes with 'Cc: stable@dpdk.org' tag, and a relevant 'Fixes:..'
>> tag. See fuller answer here:
>> http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/stable.html#what-changes-should-be-backported
>>
>> Status is through emails like this one, and a summary email before
>> release. e.g for 18.08
>> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2018-December/011828.html
>>
>> Kevin.
>>
>>> The reason why I ask this is that from user perspective
>>> I want as much patches be queued to LTS so that we can 
>>> use LTS as stable one.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I agree :-)
>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> BR,
>>> Hideyuki Yamashita
>>> NTT TechnoCross
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> FYI, your patch has been queued to LTS release 18.11.1
>>>>
>>>> Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
>>>> It will be pushed if I get no objections before 01/11/19. So please
>>>> shout if anyone has objections.
>>>>
>>>> Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
>>>> patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
>>>> needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
>>>> (ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
>>>> correctly done.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin Traynor
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> From 00ffa031bda23be8e1d558d8ed981389628bc543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>> From: Hideyuki Yamashita <yamashita.hideyuki@po.ntt-tx.co.jp>
>>>> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 13:37:18 +0900
>>>> Subject: [PATCH] net/vhost: fix double free of MAC address
>>>>
>>>> [ upstream commit 6e3339ca07734e59cd0c24594e3014ab49a0ffc0 ]
>>>>
>>>> The common data freeing has been moved to rte_eth_dev_release_port(),
>>>> so freeing mac_addrs like this in eth_dev_close() is unnecessary and
>>>> will cause double free.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: e16adf08e54d ("ethdev: free all common data when releasing port")
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Hideyuki Yamashita <yamashita.hideyuki@po.ntt-tx.co.jp>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yasufumi Ogawa <ogawa.yasufumi@lab.ntt.co.jp>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 1 -
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
>>>> index 42bdfcbd5..b2cda0483 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
>>>> @@ -1001,5 +1001,4 @@ eth_dev_close(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>>>>  			rte_free(dev->data->tx_queues[i]);
>>>>  
>>>> -	rte_free(dev->data->mac_addrs);
>>>>  	free(internal->dev_name);
>>>>  	free(internal->iface_name);
>>>> -- 
>>>> 2.19.0
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>   Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
>>>> ---
>>>> --- -	2019-01-04 13:23:09.004712018 <sip:09004712018> <sip:09004712018 <sip:09004712018>> +0000
>>>> +++ 0064-net-vhost-fix-double-free-of-MAC-address.patch	2019-01-04 13:23:07.000000000 <sip:07000000000> <sip:07000000000 <sip:07000000000>> +0000
>>>> @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
>>>> -From 6e3339ca07734e59cd0c24594e3014ab49a0ffc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>> +From 00ffa031bda23be8e1d558d8ed981389628bc543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>  From: Hideyuki Yamashita <yamashita.hideyuki@po.ntt-tx.co.jp>
>>>>  Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 13:37:18 +0900
>>>>  Subject: [PATCH] net/vhost: fix double free of MAC address
>>>>  
>>>> +[ upstream commit 6e3339ca07734e59cd0c24594e3014ab49a0ffc0 ]
>>>> +
>>>>  The common data freeing has been moved to rte_eth_dev_release_port(),
>>>>  so freeing mac_addrs like this in eth_dev_close() is unnecessary and
>>>>  will cause double free.
>>>>  
>>>>  Fixes: e16adf08e54d ("ethdev: free all common data when releasing port")
>>>> -Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>>>  
>>>>  Signed-off-by: Hideyuki Yamashita <yamashita.hideyuki@po.ntt-tx.co.jp>
>>>>  Signed-off-by: Yasufumi Ogawa <ogawa.yasufumi@lab.ntt.co.jp>
>>>
>>>
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