[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: fix use after free issue

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Fri Oct 21 09:52:27 CEST 2016


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:38:06PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> Fix the coverity USE_AFTER_FREE issue.
> 
> Fixes: a277c7159876 ("vhost: refactor code structure")
> Coverity issue: 137884
> 
> Reported-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-virtio.

	--yliu
> ---
>  lib/librte_vhost/socket.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/socket.c b/lib/librte_vhost/socket.c
> index 967cb65..aaa9c27 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/socket.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/socket.c
> @@ -250,8 +250,8 @@ vhost_user_read_cb(int connfd, void *dat, int *remove)
>  		vsocket->connfd = -1;
>  		close(connfd);
>  		*remove = 1;
> -		free(conn);
>  		vhost_destroy_device(conn->vid);
> +		free(conn);
>  
>  		if (vsocket->reconnect)
>  			vhost_user_create_client(vsocket);
> -- 
> 1.9.0


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