[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/ioat: fix failure check for ioat dequeue

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 5:10 PM Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com> wrote:
>
> The nb_dq return value from the ioat dequeue is negative in failure
> cases, however the variable was an unsigned int, causing the condition
> where nb_dq <= 0 to never be true. This is now cast to a signed int,
> which will successfully reflect the -1 value to be used in this
> conditional check.
>
> Coverity issue: 350342
> Coverity issue: 350349
> Fixes: 92c981637ffc ("examples/ioat: handle failure case for ioat dequeue")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com>

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Applied, thanks.


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David Marchand