[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/failsafe: fix probe cleanup' has been queued to stable release 18.02.2

luca.boccassi at gmail.com luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Tue May 15 15:47:09 CEST 2018


Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 18.02.2

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 05/16/18. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From f811ccd32d16ef119bbc9d04e8861e6dd72552fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at mellanox.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 18:57:39 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] net/failsafe: fix probe cleanup

[ upstream commit 95e7a72f9decd1db38dfb754b485dd4ac6859def ]

The hot-plug alarm mechanism is responsible to practically execute both
plug in and out operations. It periodically tries to detect missed
sub-devices to be reconfigured and clean the resources of the removed
sub-devices.

The hot-plug alarm is started by the failsafe probe function, and it's
wrongly not stopped if failsafe instance got an error. for example
when starting failsafe with a MAC option, and giving it an invalid MAC
address this will lead to a NULL pointer for the dev private field. Then
when the hotplug alarm is called it will try to access this pointer,
which will lead to a segmentation fault.

Uninstall the hot-plug alarm in case of error in probe function.

Fixes: ebea83f8 ("net/failsafe: add plug-in support")

Signed-off-by: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>
---
 drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
index c499bfb98..5b177c7a1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ fs_eth_dev_create(struct rte_vdev_device *vdev)
 							       mac);
 			if (ret) {
 				ERROR("Failed to set default MAC address");
-				goto free_args;
+				goto cancel_alarm;
 			}
 		}
 	} else {
@@ -258,6 +258,8 @@ fs_eth_dev_create(struct rte_vdev_device *vdev)
 		.type = RTE_INTR_HANDLE_EXT,
 	};
 	return 0;
+cancel_alarm:
+	failsafe_hotplug_alarm_cancel(dev);
 free_args:
 	failsafe_args_free(dev);
 free_subs:
-- 
2.14.2



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