[PATCH v5 1/2] drivers/net: fix buffer overflow for ptypes list

[Power, Ciara]

Hi Ferruh,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 9:43 AM
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] drivers/net: fix buffer overflow for ptypes list
> 
> On 1/19/2024 5:10 PM, Power, Ciara wrote:
> > Hi Ferruh,
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>
> >> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2024 2:59 PM
> >> To: Sivaramakrishnan, VenkatX <venkatx.sivaramakrishnan at intel.com>;
> >> Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Sachin Saxena
> >> <sachin.saxena at nxp.com>; Zyta Szpak <zr at semihalf.com>; Liron Himi
> >> <lironh at marvell.com>; Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he at corigine.com>;
> >> Gagandeep Singh <g.singh at nxp.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>;
> >> Maciej Czekaj <mczekaj at marvell.com>
> >> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Power, Ciara <ciara.power at intel.com>;
> >> pascal.mazon at 6wind.com; shreyansh.jain at nxp.com; tdu at semihalf.com;
> >> qin.ke at corigine.com; jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com; stable at dpdk.org
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] drivers/net: fix buffer overflow for
> >> ptypes list
> >>
> >> On 1/18/2024 12:07 PM, Sivaramakrishnan Venkat wrote:
> >>> Address Sanitizer detects a buffer overflow caused by an incorrect
> >>> ptypes list. Missing "RTE_PTYPE_UNKNOWN" ptype causes buffer
> overflow.
> >>> Fix the ptypes list for drivers.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: 0849ac3b6122 ("net/tap: add packet type management")
> >>> Fixes: a7bdc3bd4244 ("net/dpaa: support packet type parsing")
> >>> Fixes: 4ccc8d770d3b ("net/mvneta: add PMD skeleton")
> >>> Fixes: f3f0d77db6b0 ("net/mrvl: support packet type parsing")
> >>> Fixes: 71e8bb65046e ("net/nfp: update supported list of packet
> >>> types")
> >>> Fixes: 659b494d3d88 ("net/pfe: add packet types and basic
> >>> statistics")
> >>> Fixes: 398a1be14168 ("net/thunderx: remove generic passX
> >>> references")
> >>> Cc: pascal.mazon at 6wind.com
> >>> Cc: shreyansh.jain at nxp.com
> >>> Cc: zr at semihalf.com
> >>> Cc: tdu at semihalf.com
> >>> Cc: qin.ke at corigine.com
> >>> Cc: g.singh at nxp.com
> >>> Cc: jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com
> >>> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Sivaramakrishnan Venkat
> >>> <venkatx.sivaramakrishnan at intel.com>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> ("Cc: <email>" shouldn't be in the commit message, but not big deal I
> >> can remove them while merging.
> >> If you want to help, in next version please put them after '---', as
> >> you are already doing with changelog)
> >
> > Thanks for the review on this one.
> >
> > The DPDK docs suggest adding the Fixes line + CC in the commit message
> body - has the guidelines changed for this?
> >
> 
> Can you please point me the mentioned doc, let me check it?

Sure, it's in section 8.7 here: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/patches.html 

Thanks,
Ciara