Querying timer adapter events through dpdk-telemetry crashes DPDK applications

https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1260

Bug ID: 1260
Summary: Querying timer adapter events through dpdk-telemetry
crashes DPDK applications
Product: DPDK
Version: 22.11
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: eventdev
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---

Running DPDK application (e.g. dpdk-testpmd) and not supporting DPDK Timer Events (or using a NIC that supports that) can lead to complete crash of both the original DPDK application and dpdk-telemetry when the /eventdev/ta_info or /eventdev/ta_stats are queried. Random other eventdev events are handled well and do not crash neither the application nor the dpdk-telemetry script.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Run the dpdk-testpmd application (e.g. with i40e nic but other nics not supporting timer adapter events should work too) sudo dpdk-testpmd -l 0,2 -- -i
2) Run dpdk-telemetry sudo dpdk-telemetry
3) Query /eventdev/ta_info,1

dpdk-testpmd output:

$ sudo dpdk-testpmd -l 0,2 -- -i
EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 24
EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 2
EAL: Detected static linkage of DPDK
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA'
EAL: VFIO support initialized
EAL: Using IOMMU type 8 (No-IOMMU)
EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_i40e (8086:1572) device: 0000:43:00.0 (socket 1)
EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_i40e (8086:1572) device: 0000:43:00.1 (socket 1)
Interactive-mode selected
testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_0>: n=155456, size=2176, socket=0
testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc
testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_1>: n=155456, size=2176, socket=1
testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc
Configuring Port 0 (socket 1)
Port 0: 80:61:5F:07:FB:66
Configuring Port 1 (socket 1)
Port 1: 80:61:5F:07:FB:67
Checking link statuses...
Done
testpmd> Segmentation fault

dpdk-telemetry output:
Connected to application: "dpdk-testpmd"
--> /eventdev/ta_info,1
Error in reply:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/dpdk-telemetry.py", line 183, in <module>
handle_socket(args, sock_path)
File "/bin/dpdk-telemetry.py", line 147, in handle_socket
read_socket(sock, output_buf_len, pretty=prompt)
File "/bin/dpdk-telemetry.py", line 30, in read_socket
ret = json.loads(reply)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 354, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode

    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())

File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Effective from the addition of Timer Adapter events until now (22.11+). Although one can argue that if the NIC does not support the Timer Adapters then it is ok behavior however I believe the application should not crash and the query should only result in an error.

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