If a bonded device is created when there are no slave devices there is loop in bond_ethdev_promiscous_enable() which results in a segmentation fault.
The solution is to initialise the current_primary_port to an invalid port value when the bonded port is created. Fixes: 2efb58cbab6e ("bond: new link bonding library") Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger at intel.com> --- Changes in V2: Set current_primary_port to an invalid value. drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_api.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_api.c b/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_api.c index a0995ec..1d67a0c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_api.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_api.c @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ rte_eth_bond_create(const char *name, uint8_t mode, uint8_t socket_id) internals->port_id = eth_dev->data->port_id; internals->mode = BONDING_MODE_INVALID; - internals->current_primary_port = 0; + internals->current_primary_port = RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS + 1; internals->balance_xmit_policy = BALANCE_XMIT_POLICY_LAYER2; internals->xmit_hash = xmit_l2_hash; internals->user_defined_mac = 0; -- 2.6.3