[PATCH v7] eal: fix rte_memcpy strict aliasing/alignment bugs

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Thu May 19 18:47:35 CEST 2022


On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 5:24 PM David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 3:55 PM Ananyev, Konstantin
> <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com> wrote:
> > > Calls to rte_memcpy for 1 < n < 16 could result in unaligned
> > > loads/stores, which is undefined behaviour according to the C
> > > standard, and strict aliasing violations.
> > >
> > > The code was changed to use a packed structure that allows aliasing
> > > (using the __may_alias__ attribute) to perform the load/store
> > > operations. This results in code that has the same performance as the
> > > original code and that is also C standards-compliant.
> > >

Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
> > > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Luc Pelletier <lucp.at.work at gmail.com>
> > Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
> > Tested-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
>

Applied, thanks Luc.

-- 
David Marchand



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