[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] ethdev: prevent segfaults in rte_eth_dev_is_detachable

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Tue Nov 3 12:10:43 CET 2015


2015-10-29 09:55, David Marchand:
> From: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy at 6wind.com>
> 
> Some drivers like virtual ones don't specify any driver pointer in the
> structure rte_eth_dev.
> 
> To prevent segfault, we should check if this pointer is NULL before
> dereferencing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy at 6wind.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com>

It is not clear what the problem is.
And the driver fields should probably be removed or changed as it too tigthly
related to the PCI driver.



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