vlib: allocating buffers on thread-x and freeing them on thread-y causes

a crash on debug image (VPP-1151)

In debug image, there is extra code to validate the buffer when it is
freed. It uses the hash table to lookup the buffer index with spinlock
to prevent contention. However, there is one spinlock for each worker
thread. So allocating the buffer on thread-x and freeing the same buffer
on thread-y causes the validation to fail on thread-y. The fix is to
have only one spinlock, stored in vlib_global_main.

Change-Id: Ic383846cefe84a3e262255afcf82276742f0f62e
Signed-off-by: Steven <sluong@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h b/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h
index 1ea3c0829b8..5d260db2e72 100644
--- a/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h
+++ b/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h
@@ -222,9 +222,9 @@ void vlib_buffer_validate_alloc_free (vlib_main_t * vm, u32 * buffers,
 				      expected_state);
 
 always_inline vlib_buffer_known_state_t
-vlib_buffer_is_known (vlib_main_t * vm, u32 buffer_index)
+vlib_buffer_is_known (u32 buffer_index)
 {
-  vlib_buffer_main_t *bm = vm->buffer_main;
+  vlib_buffer_main_t *bm = vlib_global_main.buffer_main;
 
   clib_spinlock_lock (&bm->buffer_known_hash_lockp);
   uword *p = hash_get (bm->buffer_known_hash, buffer_index);
@@ -233,11 +233,11 @@ vlib_buffer_is_known (vlib_main_t * vm, u32 buffer_index)
 }
 
 always_inline void
-vlib_buffer_set_known_state (vlib_main_t * vm,
-			     u32 buffer_index,
+vlib_buffer_set_known_state (u32 buffer_index,
 			     vlib_buffer_known_state_t state)
 {
-  vlib_buffer_main_t *bm = vm->buffer_main;
+  vlib_buffer_main_t *bm = vlib_global_main.buffer_main;
+
   clib_spinlock_lock (&bm->buffer_known_hash_lockp);
   hash_set (bm->buffer_known_hash, buffer_index, state);
   clib_spinlock_unlock (&bm->buffer_known_hash_lockp);