Hi Michael, Isn't it better to set it to IFNAMSIZ instead of 16?
Best regards, Igot On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:41 PM Michael Pfeiffer < michael.pfeif...@tu-ilmenau.de> wrote: > The name in rte_kni_device_info is passed to the kernel, which allows > interface names with at most 16 bytes (IFNAMSIZ). rte_kni_alloc with a > longer name currently trigger a kernel BUG in alloc_netdev_mqs in > net/core/dev.c. Reduce RTE_KNI_NAMESIZE to prevent this situation. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeif...@tu-ilmenau.de> > --- > lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/include/rte_kni_common.h | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/include/rte_kni_common.h > b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/include/rte_kni_common.h > index 46f75a710..59339271b 100644 > --- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/include/rte_kni_common.h > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/include/rte_kni_common.h > @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ > /** > * KNI name is part of memzone name. > */ > -#define RTE_KNI_NAMESIZE 32 > +#define RTE_KNI_NAMESIZE 16 > > #define RTE_CACHE_LINE_MIN_SIZE 64 > > -- > 2.20.1 > >
