[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] xenvirt: Fix build break on cmdline_parse_etheraddr call

Neil Horman nhorman at tuxdriver.com
Thu Dec 18 21:54:41 CET 2014


On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:45:54PM +0000, Qiu, Michael wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> 
> I think if you could add the commit author in the cc list will be better.
> 
The commit author is me, and its recorded by the Signed-off line, as well as the
Authorship tag in git.  Not really sure what you're driving at here.

> Because this could let him know about his code's issue and he is the
> always the best person to review the patch.
> 
Yes, Git already does that, as noted above.

Neil


> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> On 2014/12/18 19:32, Neil Horman wrote:
> > Back in:
> >
> > commit aaa662e75c23c61a1d79bd4d1f9f35b4967c39db
> > Author: Alan Carew <alan.carew at intel.com>
> > Date:   Fri Dec 5 15:19:07 2014 +0100
> >
> >     cmdline: fix overflow on bsd
> >
> > The author failed to fixup a call to cmdline_parse_etheraddr in xenvirt.  This
> > patch makes the needed correction to avoid a build break
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
> > CC: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> > CC: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
> >
> > ---
> > Change notes
> >
> > v2: Changed sizeof(struct ether_addr) to sizeof(dict->addr)
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_pmd_xenvirt/rte_eth_xenvirt.c | 5 +++--
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_xenvirt/rte_eth_xenvirt.c b/lib/librte_pmd_xenvirt/rte_eth_xenvirt.c
> > index 6555ec5..04e30c9 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_pmd_xenvirt/rte_eth_xenvirt.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_pmd_xenvirt/rte_eth_xenvirt.c
> > @@ -586,8 +586,9 @@ rte_eth_xenvirt_parse_args(struct xenvirt_dict *dict,
> >  		if (!strncmp(pair[0], RTE_ETH_XENVIRT_MAC_PARAM,
> >  				sizeof(RTE_ETH_XENVIRT_MAC_PARAM))) {
> >  			if (cmdline_parse_etheraddr(NULL,
> > -							pair[1],
> > -							&dict->addr) < 0) {
> > +						    pair[1],
> > +						    &dict->addr,
> > +						    sizeof(dict->addr)) < 0) {
> >  				RTE_LOG(ERR, PMD,
> >  					"Invalid %s device ether address\n",
> >  					name);
> 
> 


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