[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] afpacket: fix critical issue reported by klocwork
John W. Linville
linville at tuxdriver.com
Fri Feb 20 19:38:54 CET 2015
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:19:59AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi Cunming,
>
> You would have more chance to have a review by CC'ing John.
> I checked your patch and have a comment below.
>
> 2015-02-12 17:08, Cunming Liang:
> > Klocwork report 'req' might be used uninitialized.
> > In some cases it can 'goto error' when '*internals' not been set.
> > The result is unexpected checking the value of '*internals'.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cunming Liang <cunming.liang at intel.com>
> > ---
> > lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c b/lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
> > index 1ffe1cd..185607d 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
> > @@ -439,13 +439,15 @@ rte_pmd_init_internals(const char *name,
> > size_t ifnamelen;
> > unsigned k_idx;
> > struct sockaddr_ll sockaddr;
> > - struct tpacket_req *req;
> > + struct tpacket_req *req = NULL;
>
> If *internals is set to NULL, there should be no case where req used
> and undefined.
I agree -- it looks to me like req is protected by checking for
*internals == NULL. I don't think this patch is necessary.
> > struct pkt_rx_queue *rx_queue;
> > struct pkt_tx_queue *tx_queue;
> > int rc, qsockfd, tpver, discard;
> > unsigned int i, q, rdsize;
> > int fanout_arg __rte_unused, bypass __rte_unused;
> >
> > + *internals = NULL;
> > +
> > for (k_idx = 0; k_idx < kvlist->count; k_idx++) {
> > pair = &kvlist->pairs[k_idx];
> > if (strstr(pair->key, ETH_AF_PACKET_IFACE_ARG) != NULL)
> >
>
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