[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 13/15] net/bnxt: fix a pointer deref before null check

Ajit Khaparde ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com
Tue Oct 24 23:19:51 CEST 2017


Coverity issue: 158634
Fixes: daef48efe5e5 ("net/bnxt: support set MTU")

Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
---
 drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.c b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.c
index d9621e593..d68d26f17 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.c
@@ -437,11 +437,11 @@ static int bnxt_rx_pkt(struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkt,
 
 	cons = rxcmp->opaque;
 	mbuf = bnxt_consume_rx_buf(rxr, cons);
-	rte_prefetch0(mbuf);
-
 	if (mbuf == NULL)
 		return -EBUSY;
 
+	rte_prefetch0(mbuf);
+
 	mbuf->nb_segs = 1;
 	mbuf->next = NULL;
 	mbuf->pkt_len = rxcmp->len;
-- 
2.13.5 (Apple Git-94)



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