[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/bnxt: fix a potential null pointer dereference' has been queued to stable release 17.08.1

[Yuanhan Liu]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 17.08.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 11/24/17. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From deae7b1ece6a436318d3fc598953630259884986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:19:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] net/bnxt: fix a potential null pointer dereference

[ upstream commit faabf471da1dcde474ed84b7e311388962d86925 ]

Coverity issue: 158634
Fixes: daef48efe5e5 ("net/bnxt: support set MTU")

Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
---
 drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ring.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ring.c b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ring.c
index 9d0ae27..583c825 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ring.c
@@ -323,8 +323,10 @@ int bnxt_alloc_hwrm_rings(struct bnxt *bp)
 
 		ring = rxr->ag_ring_struct;
 		/* Agg ring */
-		if (ring == NULL)
+		if (ring == NULL) {
 			RTE_LOG(ERR, PMD, "Alloc AGG Ring is NULL!\n");
+			goto err_out;
+		}
 
 		rc = bnxt_hwrm_ring_alloc(bp, ring,
 				HWRM_RING_ALLOC_INPUT_RING_TYPE_RX,
-- 
2.7.4