[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] examples/ntb: fix build issue with GCC 13

[Guo, Junfeng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jerinj at marvell.com <jerinj at marvell.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2023 16:54
> To: dev at dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Guo, Junfeng
> <junfeng.guo at intel.com>; Li, Xiaoyun <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>
> Cc: thomas at monjalon.net; david.marchand at redhat.com;
> ferruh.yigit at amd.com; Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>;
> stable at dpdk.org; Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] examples/ntb: fix build issue with GCC 13
> 
> From: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
> 
> Fix the following build issue by not allowing nb_ids to be zero.
> nb_ids can be zero based on rte_rawdev_xstats_get() API
> documentation but it is not valid for the case when second
> argument is NULL.
> 
> examples/ntb/ntb_fwd.c: In function 'ntb_stats_display':
> examples/ntb/ntb_fwd.c:945:23: error: 'rte_rawdev_xstats_get'
> accessing 8 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
>   945 | if (nb_ids != rte_rawdev_xstats_get(dev_id, ids, values, nb_ids)) {
>       |
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> examples/ntb/ntb_fwd.c:945:23: note: referencing argument 3
> of type 'uint64_t[0]' {aka 'long unsigned int[]'}
> In file included from ../examples/ntb/ntb_fwd.c:17:
> lib/rawdev/rte_rawdev.h:504:1: note: in a call to function
> 'rte_rawdev_xstats_get'
>   504 | rte_rawdev_xstats_get(uint16_t dev_id,
> 
> Fixes: 5194299d6ef5 ("examples/ntb: support more functions")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
> Tested-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Apply the same fix for ntb_stats_clear()(Junfeng)
> 
>  examples/ntb/ntb_fwd.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/examples/ntb/ntb_fwd.c b/examples/ntb/ntb_fwd.c
> index f9abed28e4..585aad9d70 100644
> --- a/examples/ntb/ntb_fwd.c
> +++ b/examples/ntb/ntb_fwd.c
> @@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ ntb_stats_clear(void)
> --
> 2.40.1

LGTM, it makes sense to avoid zero memory allocation. Thanks!

Acked-by: Junfeng Guo <junfeng.guo at intel.com>

Regards,
Junfeng Guo