[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] malloc: fix potential negative return

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Tue Apr 17 17:48:17 CEST 2018


Return value from rte_socket_id_by_idx() may be negative, which would
result in negative index access.

Additionally, return value was of mismatched type (function returns
signed int, socket id was unsigned).

Coverity issue: 272571
Coverity issue: 272597

Fixes: 30bc6bf0d516 ("malloc: add function to dump heap contents")
Cc: anatoly.burakov at intel.com

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
index b51a6d1..f207ba2 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
@@ -169,7 +169,11 @@ rte_malloc_dump_heaps(FILE *f)
 	unsigned int idx;
 
 	for (idx = 0; idx < rte_socket_count(); idx++) {
-		unsigned int socket = rte_socket_id_by_idx(idx);
+		int socket = rte_socket_id_by_idx(idx);
+		if (socket < 0) {
+			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Invalid socket index: %u\n", idx);
+			continue;
+		}
 		fprintf(f, "Heap on socket %i:\n", socket);
 		malloc_heap_dump(&mcfg->malloc_heaps[socket], f);
 	}
-- 
2.7.4


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