> The DPDK API's are lax about checking for undefined flag values. > This makes it impossible to add new bits to existing API's > without causing ABI breakage. This means we end up doing unnecessary > symbol versioning just to work around applications that might > pass in naughty bits. > > This is the DPDK analog of the Linux kernel openat() problem. > Openat api was added but since kernel did not check flags it > ended up that another syscall openat2() was necessary before > the flags could be used. > > v3 - define mask based on existing defines for ring and hash > > Stephen Hemminger (4): > ring: future proof flag settings > hash: check flags on creation > stack: check flags on creation > cfgfile: check flags value > > lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c | 4 ++++ > lib/librte_hash/rte_cuckoo_hash.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ > lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.c | 12 ++++++++++++ > lib/librte_stack/rte_stack.c | 5 +++++ > 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+) > > --
Series Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@intel.com> > 2.20.1
