[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] raw/ioat: fix queue index calculation

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Nov 3 22:51:17 CET 2020


03/11/2020 21:21, Thomas Monjalon:
> 03/11/2020 15:48, Bruce Richardson:
> > Coverity flags a possible problem where the 8-bit wq_idx value may have
> > errors when shifted and sign-extended to 64-bits. Since this can only occur
> > if the shift index is larger than any expected value from hardware, it's
> > unlikely to cause any real problems, but we can eliminate any
> > possible errors, and the coverity issue, by explicitly typecasting
> > the uint8_t value to 64-bits before any shift operations occur.
> > 
> > Coverity issue: 363695
> > Fixes: a33969462135 ("raw/ioat: fix work-queue config size")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks

Actually no, sorry for the confusion, there is a build issue
with 32-bit compiler:
	error: cast to pointer from integer of different size

(thanks David for the heads up)




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