> -----Original Message----- > From: lng-odp [mailto:lng-odp-boun...@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of > Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 8:00 PM > To: lng-odp-forward <lng-odp@lists.linaro.org> > Subject: [lng-odp] odp_packet_free_multi with invalid packets > > Hello, > > I was looking onto a shortcut code to free packets results from IPsec > call. Initially I wanted to just call odp_packet_free_multi() on top of > that array. However I noticed that the function segfaults if called with > an array containing ODP_PACKET_INVALID. Is it correct to call > odp_packet_free_multi() on top of such arrays, or I'd better handcode > such function checking and freeing packets one by one.
By default, results are undefined (may crash) if you pass bad handle (such as XXX_INVALID) to any ODP API. That's for performance, so that implementation does not validate always all handles from application. -Petri
