[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/nfp: fix null pointer check

Alejandro Lucero alejandro.lucero at netronome.com
Wed Nov 8 15:36:32 CET 2017


First, the received pointer was not checked before. Then the pointer
from malloc was not the one used in the existing check.

Fixes: ad60bca34899 ("net/nfp: read PF port MAC addr using NSP")
Coverity: 195027

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero at netronome.com>
---
 drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nspu.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nspu.c b/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nspu.c
index 39d14e6..0b415fc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nspu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nspu.c
@@ -618,10 +618,14 @@
 {
 	int ret;
 
+	if (!table)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	RTE_LOG(INFO, PMD, "Reading hw ethernet table...\n");
+
 	/* port 0 allocates the eth table and read it using NSPU */
 	*table = malloc(NSP_ETH_TABLE_SIZE);
-	if (!table)
+	if (!*table)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ret = nspu_command(desc, NSP_CMD_READ_ETH_TABLE, 1, 0, *table,
-- 
1.9.1



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