[PATCH v1] net/memif: fix segfault with Tx burst larger than 255

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue,  5 Dec 2023 04:05:24 +0000
Joyce Kong <joyce.kong at arm.com> wrote:

> There will be a segfault when tx burst size is larger than
> 256. This is because eth_memif_tx uses an index i which is
> uint8_t to count transmitted nb_pkts. Extend i to uint16_t,
> the same size as nb_pkts.
> 
> Fixes: b5613c8f9d0a ("net/memif: add a Tx fast path")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Reported-by: Liangxing Wang <liangxing.wang at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joyce Kong <joyce.kong at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
> ---

I wonder if other drivers have same bug?

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>