[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] fbarray: fix potential null-dereference

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Tue Apr 17 17:44:07 CEST 2018


We get pointer to mask before we check if fbarray is NULL. Fix
by moving getting mask pointer to until after NULL check.

Coverity issue: 272579

Fixes: c44d09811b40 ("eal: add shared indexed file-backed array")
Cc: anatoly.burakov at intel.com

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_fbarray.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_fbarray.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_fbarray.c
index 95a7c8e..c4ed97e 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_fbarray.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_fbarray.c
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ find_contig(const struct rte_fbarray *arr, int start, bool used)
 static int
 set_used(struct rte_fbarray *arr, int idx, bool used)
 {
-	struct used_mask *msk = get_used_mask(arr->data, arr->elt_sz, arr->len);
+	struct used_mask *msk;
 	uint64_t msk_bit = 1ULL << MASK_LEN_TO_MOD(idx);
 	int msk_idx = MASK_LEN_TO_IDX(idx);
 	bool already_used;
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ set_used(struct rte_fbarray *arr, int idx, bool used)
 		rte_errno = EINVAL;
 		return -1;
 	}
+	msk = get_used_mask(arr->data, arr->elt_sz, arr->len);
 	ret = 0;
 
 	/* prevent array from changing under us */
-- 
2.7.4


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