[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: check malloc return value when allocating guest pages

Jens Freimann jfreimann at redhat.com
Thu May 11 17:25:26 CEST 2017


When we try to allocate guest pages we need to check the return value of
malloc(). Print an error message and return when it fails.

Signed-off-by: Jens Freimann <jfreimann at redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
index 5c8058b..437e41f 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
@@ -515,6 +515,13 @@ vhost_user_set_mem_table(struct virtio_net *dev, struct VhostUserMsg *pmsg)
 		dev->max_guest_pages = 8;
 		dev->guest_pages = malloc(dev->max_guest_pages *
 						sizeof(struct guest_page));
+		if (dev->guest_pages == NULL) {
+			RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_CONFIG,
+				"(%d) failed to allocate memory "
+				"for dev->guest_pages\n",
+				dev->vid);
+			return -1;
+		}
 	}
 
 	dev->mem = rte_zmalloc("vhost-mem-table", sizeof(struct rte_vhost_memory) +
-- 
2.9.3



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