On 5/26/2016 2:35 PM, Reshma Pattan wrote:
> Testpmd application will crash in fclose() upon quit after running
> the below command.
>
> "sudo gdb --args ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0xf0 -n 4 --vdev
> 'eth_pcap0,tx_iface=enp1s0f1,rx_pcap=/tmp/test.pcap' --
> --port-topology=chained -i"
checkpatch complain about long line (> 75 chars)
>
> The reason is, pcap vdev creation with tx stream type as "iface" as in above
> command dont need member ''dumpers'' of "struct tx_pcaps", hence will not have
s/dont/don't, s/''/"
> memory allocated. But contains a garbage values, as local object of struct
> tx_pcaps
> is not initialized to 0 inside rte_pmd_pcap_dev_init(). So calling
> pcap_dump_close() on
> dumper as part of eth_dev_stop() is causing segfault in fclose().
>
> Fix is to initilize local object of struct tx_pcaps to 0.
s/initilize/initialize
> Also initiliaze local object of stcruct rx_pcaps to 0.
s/initiliaze/initialize, s/stcruct/struct
>
> So during eth_dev_stop(), pcap_dump_close() will not be called if dumper is
> NULL.
>
> Fixes:4c173302("pcap: add new driver")
>
> Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c b/drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c
> index c98e234..c86f17b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c
> @@ -978,8 +978,8 @@ rte_pmd_pcap_devinit(const char *name, const char *params)
> unsigned numa_node, using_dumpers = 0;
> int ret;
> struct rte_kvargs *kvlist;
> - struct rx_pcaps pcaps;
> - struct tx_pcaps dumpers;
> + struct rx_pcaps pcaps = {0};
I think this is not required to fix mentioned segfault.
But I am OK to keep this.
> + struct tx_pcaps dumpers = {0};
>
> RTE_LOG(INFO, PMD, "Initializing pmd_pcap for %s\n", name);
>
>
please update patch subject tag from "drivers/net/pcap:" to "pcap:"
Can you please send a new version with above minor issues fixed?
You can keep my ack in new version.
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
