[dpdk-stable] patch 'examples/vhost: fix sending ARP packet to self' has been queued to LTS release 16.11.5

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to LTS release 16.11.5

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 01/28/18. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From 5cfb193e7072b9779be550bf35d0c56ea67f4006 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junjie Chen <junjie.j.chen at intel.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 09:33:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] examples/vhost: fix sending ARP packet to self

[ upstream commit a3fdb53270d4359fc8fe1d1faedd737024d10548 ]

ARP packets are not dropped when dest vdev is itself, which breaks
RX ring inconspicuously.

Fixes: 9c5ef51207c6 ("examples/vhost: handle broadcast packet")

Signed-off-by: Junjie Chen <junjie.j.chen at intel.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yliu at fridaylinux.org>
---
 examples/vhost/main.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/examples/vhost/main.c b/examples/vhost/main.c
index 1e9059b43..86f806523 100644
--- a/examples/vhost/main.c
+++ b/examples/vhost/main.c
@@ -954,7 +954,8 @@ virtio_tx_route(struct vhost_dev *vdev, struct rte_mbuf *m, uint16_t vlan_tag)
 		struct vhost_dev *vdev2;
 
 		TAILQ_FOREACH(vdev2, &vhost_dev_list, global_vdev_entry) {
-			virtio_xmit(vdev2, vdev, m);
+			if (vdev2 != vdev)
+				virtio_xmit(vdev2, vdev, m);
 		}
 		goto queue2nic;
 	}
-- 
2.14.2