On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 6:54 PM Pablo de Lara
<pablo.de.lara.gua...@intel.com> wrote:
>
> rte_efd_create() function was using uint8_t for a socket bitmask,
> for one of its parameters.
> This limits the maximum of NUMA sockets to be 8.
> Changing to to uint64_t increases it to 64, which should be
> more future-proof.
Cc: ppc maintainer, since I think powerX servers have non contiguous
NUMA sockets.
>
> Coverity issue: 366390
> Fixes: 56b6ef874f8 ("efd: new Elastic Flow Distributor library")
>
> Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.gua...@intel.com>
> ---
>
> This fix requires an API breakage and therefore it is not
> a good candidate for backporting (besides, it is a very low impact bug).
> Hence, I am not CC'ing stable.
This is an unannounced breakage for a stable API.
Cc: techboard + Ray for awareness.
>
> ---
>
> lib/efd/rte_efd.c | 2 +-
> lib/efd/rte_efd.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/efd/rte_efd.c b/lib/efd/rte_efd.c
> index 77f46809f8..68a2378e88 100644
> --- a/lib/efd/rte_efd.c
> +++ b/lib/efd/rte_efd.c
> @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ efd_search_hash(struct rte_efd_table * const table,
>
> struct rte_efd_table *
> rte_efd_create(const char *name, uint32_t max_num_rules, uint32_t key_len,
> - uint8_t online_cpu_socket_bitmask, uint8_t offline_cpu_socket)
> + uint64_t online_cpu_socket_bitmask, uint8_t
> offline_cpu_socket)
> {
> struct rte_efd_table *table = NULL;
> uint8_t *key_array = NULL;
> diff --git a/lib/efd/rte_efd.h b/lib/efd/rte_efd.h
> index c2be4c09ae..d3d7befd0c 100644
> --- a/lib/efd/rte_efd.h
> +++ b/lib/efd/rte_efd.h
> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ typedef uint16_t efd_hashfunc_t;
> */
> struct rte_efd_table *
> rte_efd_create(const char *name, uint32_t max_num_rules, uint32_t key_len,
> - uint8_t online_cpu_socket_bitmask, uint8_t offline_cpu_socket);
> + uint64_t online_cpu_socket_bitmask, uint8_t offline_cpu_socket);
>
> /**
> * Releases the resources from an EFD table
> --
> 2.25.1
>
--
David Marchand
