[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] lib: fix coverity issues in distributor allocation

David Hunt david.hunt at intel.com
Tue Apr 4 04:42:41 CEST 2017


Coverity issue 143258: not freeing distributor instance
Coverity issue 143254: not checking return code from malloc

Fixes: 775003ad2f96 ("distributor: add new burst-capable library")

Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor.c b/lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor.c
index 06df13d..4725904 100644
--- a/lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor.c
+++ b/lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor.c
@@ -621,9 +621,14 @@ rte_distributor_create_v1705(const char *name,
 
 	if (alg_type == RTE_DIST_ALG_SINGLE) {
 		d = malloc(sizeof(struct rte_distributor));
+		if (d == NULL) {
+			rte_errno = ENOMEM;
+			return NULL;
+		}
 		d->d_v20 = rte_distributor_create_v20(name,
 				socket_id, num_workers);
 		if (d->d_v20 == NULL) {
+			free(d);
 			/* rte_errno will have been set */
 			return NULL;
 		}
-- 
2.7.4



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