On 21.11.2019 14:58, Ilya Maximets wrote: > 'ol_flags' of DPDK mbuf could contain bits responsible for external > or indirect buffers which are not actually offload flags in a common > sense. Clearing/copying of these flags could lead to memory leaks of > external memory chunks and crashes due to access to wrong memory. > > OVS should not clear these flags while resetting offloads and also > should not copy them to the newly allocated packets. > > This change is required to support DPDK 19.11, as some drivers may > return mbufs with these flags set. However, it might be good to do > the same for DPDK 18.11, because these flags are present and should > be taken into account. > > Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maxim...@ovn.org>
We could also add the following tag: Fixes: 03f3f9c0faf8 ("dpdk: Update to use DPDK 18.11.") Best regards, Ilya Maximets. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev