[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] nfp: restore the unlink operation

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 5/14/2018 3:46 PM, Aaron Conole wrote:
> For the stable versions of DPDK, the NFP driver's NSP user space
> driver was modified to account for non-root usage.  When that
> happened, commit 515933ad8385 ("nfp: allow for non-root user")
> inadvertently removed the unlink() call.

This patch is for stable tree.

Which stable branches are effected? Only 18.02?


And a generic stable tree question, is there a easy way to find out which stable
versions has a fix? For this example which versions get "nfp: allow for non-root
user" fix?

> 
> Fixes: 515933ad8385 ("nfp: allow for non-root user")
> Cc: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero at netronome.com>
> Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> Cc: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro at redhat.com>
> Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yliu at fridaylinux.org>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c b/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c
> index ae2e07220..c003640c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c
> @@ -121,5 +121,6 @@ nfpu_close(nfpu_desc_t *desc)
>  	close(desc->lock);
>  
>  	nspu_get_lockfile_path(lockname, sizeof(lockname), desc);
> +	unlink(lockname);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>