[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bus/fslmc: fix for resource leak coverity issue

[Sachin Saxena]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Babu Radhakrishnan, AgalyaX
> <agalyax.babu.radhakrishnan at intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 1:11 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pattan at intel.com>; Hemant Agrawal
> <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Sachin Saxena <sachin.saxena at nxp.com>;
> Parthasarathy, JananeeX M <jananeex.m.parthasarathy at intel.com>;
> stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] bus/fslmc: fix for resource leak coverity issue
> Importance: High
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Babu Radhakrishnan, AgalyaX
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 1:01 PM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pattan at intel.com>;
> hemant.agrawal at nxp.com;
> > sachin.saxena at nxp.com; Parthasarathy, JananeeX M
> > <jananeex.m.parthasarathy at intel.com>; Babu Radhakrishnan, AgalyaX
> > <agalyax.babu.radhakrishnan at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> > Subject: [PATCH] bus/fslmc: fix for resource leak coverity issue
> >
> > From: Agalya Babu RadhaKrishnan
> <agalyax.babu.radhakrishnan at intel.com>
> >
> > 1 issue caught by 344967
> > Leaked_storage: Variable sep going out of scope leaks the storage it
> > points to.
> >
> > When 'sep' is not null and sep_exist is 0, 'sep' is freed before going
> > out of scope of the function irrespective of 'addr' exists or not.
> >
> > Coverity Issue: 344967
> > Fixes: e67a61614d0b ("bus/fslmc: support device iteration")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Agalya Babu RadhaKrishnan
> > <agalyax.babu.radhakrishnan at intel.com>
> > ---
> 
> if (strncmp("dpni", sep, 4) &&
>             strncmp("dpseci", sep, 6) &&
>             strncmp("dpcon", sep, 5) &
>             .....
> 
> We think validation of device name is done using AND operator instead it
> should be done by OR operator.
> Please confirm
[Sachin Saxena] The purpose of this logic to confirm that one of the device name should match to supported list and as soon as one strncmp() matches the string it will return 0 and the control comes out of IF condition.
So, existing logic is correct.