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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ethdev: fix flow API item/action name
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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:14:26 +0100
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On 10/9/2018 2:54 PM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jumping in although I cannot spend much time on rte_flow at the moment,
> please see below.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 02:21:23PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 10/7/2018 5:31 PM, Ori Kam wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Mordechay Haimovsky
>>>> Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2018 7:22 PM
>>>> To: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>; Shahaf Shuler
>>>> <shahafs@mellanox.com>; orika@contextream.com
>>>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Mordechay Haimovsky <motih@mellanox.com>
>>>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] ethdev: fix flow API item/action name
>>>> conversion
>>>>
>>>> This patch fixes a typecast bug found in rte_flow_conv_name routine
>>>> used in rte_flow item/action name conversion.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 0c2640cbfa7a ("ethdev: add flow API item/action name conversion")
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Moti Haimovsky <motih@mellanox.com>
>> <...>
>>> Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
>>
>> Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
>>
>> (please confirm latest next-net head)
> 
> Please revert, it breaks something that didn't need to be fixed. I don't
> think this patch was validated properly.
> 
> As documented in RTE_FLOW_CONV_OP_ITEM_NAME, RTE_FLOW_CONV_OP_ACTION_NAME,
> RTE_FLOW_CONV_OP_ITEM_NAME_PTR and RTE_FLOW_CONV_OP_ACTION_NAME_PTR:
> 
>  @p src type:
>    @code (const void *)enum rte_flow_item_type @endcode
> 
> With the following reminder in rte_flow_conv_name()'s Doxygen documentation:
> 
>  @param[in] src
>    Depending on @p is_action, source pattern item or action type cast as a
>    pointer.
> 
> Hence the original conversion results in the expected behavior while this
> one is almost guaranteed to trigger a segfault:
> 
>  -       unsigned int type = (uintptr_t)src;
>  +       unsigned int type = *(const unsigned int *)src;
> 
> This can be validated with testpmd. See what happens with "flow list".

Thanks Adrien, patch has been reverted on next-net.