On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 09:34:04PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 9:32 PM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > After calling rte_event_dev_info_get() the ".dev" field of the info
> > structure should have a pointer to the underlying device, allowing the
> > user to e.g. get the device name using using rte_dev_name(info.dev).
> >
> > The distributed software eventdev info structure did not return a
> > correct device pointer, though, instead returning NULL, which caused
> > crashes getting "rte_dev_name". Initializing the dev pointer inside the
> > "eventdev" struct in the device probe function fixes this by ensuring we
> > have a valid pointer to return in info_get calls.
> >
> > Fixes: 46a186b1f0c5 ("event/dsw: add device registration and build system")
> > Cc: mattias.ronnb...@ericsson.com
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
>
> Is this issue for all "vdev" devices? if so, Please check for
> drivers/event/skeleton too.
>
Yes, good point, looks like event/skeleton also returns NULL for the device
pointer.
I'll do up a v3 with the extra patch in it.
/Bruce
