[dpdk-dev] [RESEND PATCH] vhost_user: Make sure that memory map is set before attempting address translation

[Xie, Huawei]

On 1/13/2016 3:33 PM, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> Malfunctioning virtio clients may not send VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE for
> some reason. This causes NULL dereference in qva_to_vva().

Do you have examples for the malfunctioning clients? If so, could you
list them in the commit message?

>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin at samsung.com>
> Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c
> index 0ba5045..3e7cec0 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c
> @@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ set_vring_addr(struct vhost_device_ctx ctx, struct vhost_vring_addr *addr)
>  	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
>  
>  	dev = get_device(ctx);
> -	if (dev == NULL)
> +	if ((dev == NULL) || (dev->mem == NULL))
>  		return -1;
>  
>  	/* addr->index refers to the queue index. The txq 1, rxq is 0. */