[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix NULL device argument pointer reference

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Oct 22 09:30:12 CEST 2018


22/10/2018 08:15, Qi Zhang:
> dev->devargs is not initialized for PCI device, so use dev->bus to
> replace dev->devargs->bus to avoid segment fault when hotplug remove
> a PCI device.

It is not really specific to PCI device.
The devargs is not initialized if the device is probed by default policy
(i.e. not in blacklist).

I think we can say that "devargs is not always initialized".

> Fixes: 244d5130719c ("eal: enable hotplug on multi-process")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>





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