25/09/2018 14:22, Luca Boccassi:
> On Sun, 2018-09-16 at 11:56 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 24/08/2018 18:47, Konstantin Ananyev:
> > > If user specifies priority=0 for some of ACL rules
> > > that can cause rte_acl_classify to return wrong results.
> > > The reason is that priority zero is used internally for no-match
> > > nodes.
> > > See more details at: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79.
> > > The simplest way to overcome the issue is just not allow zero
> > > to be a valid priority for the rule.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: dc276b5780c2 ("acl: new library")
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@intel.com>
> > 
> > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
> > 
> > Applied with below title, thanks
> >     acl: forbid rule with priority zero
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This patch is marked for stable, but it changes an enum in a public
> header so it looks like an ABI breakage? Have I got it wrong?

-       RTE_ACL_MIN_PRIORITY = 0,
+       RTE_ACL_MIN_PRIORITY = 1,

In my understanding, the change is not breaking the ABI because
the old minimal value (0) can still be used, with the same side effect.

The new value is just removing a side effect for newly compiled apps.

Konstantin, am I right?


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