[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/af_packet: handle possible null pointer' has been queued to stable release 17.05.1

[Yuanhan Liu]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 17.05.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 06/22/17. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From 97744a47120506c02f54be07cb6d845a68c6c85a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chas Williams <ciwillia at brocade.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 14:03:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] net/af_packet: handle possible null pointer

[ upstream commit 92656e96dda5ce01d16fc751149c2763f315e6e5 ]

Fixes: 1b93c2aa81b4 ("net/af_packet: add interface name to internals")

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <ciwillia at brocade.com>
---
 drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c b/drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
index 68de45c..dd77152 100644
--- a/drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
@@ -625,6 +625,8 @@ rte_pmd_init_internals(struct rte_vdev_device *dev,
 		goto error_early;
 	}
 	(*internals)->if_name = strdup(pair->value);
+	if ((*internals)->if_name == NULL)
+		goto error_early;
 	(*internals)->if_index = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
 
 	if (ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr) == -1) {
-- 
2.7.4