[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] lib/eventdev: fix null pointer dereferences coverity issue

Gujjar, Abhinandan S abhinandan.gujjar at intel.com
Thu Sep 26 11:47:44 CEST 2019


Hi Chaitanya,

This patch is not required.
This has to be marked to ignore in coverity.

Regards
Abhinandan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chaitanya Babu, TalluriX
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 3:03 PM
> To: Gujjar, Abhinandan S <abhinandan.gujjar at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pattan at intel.com>; Parthasarathy, JananeeX M
> <jananeex.m.parthasarathy at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] lib/eventdev: fix null pointer dereferences coverity issue
> 
> Hi Abhinandan,
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Gujjar, Abhinandan S
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 11:17 AM
> >To: Chaitanya Babu, TalluriX <tallurix.chaitanya.babu at intel.com>;
> >dev at dpdk.org
> >Cc: Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pattan at intel.com>; Parthasarathy, JananeeX M
> ><jananeex.m.parthasarathy at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> >Subject: RE: [PATCH] lib/eventdev: fix null pointer dereferences
> >coverity issue
> >
> >Please find the comments inline
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Chaitanya Babu, TalluriX
> >> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2019 12:39 PM
> >> To: dev at dpdk.org
> >> Cc: Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pattan at intel.com>; Parthasarathy, JananeeX
> >> M <jananeex.m.parthasarathy at intel.com>; Gujjar, Abhinandan S
> >> <abhinandan.gujjar at intel.com>; Chaitanya Babu, TalluriX
> >> <tallurix.chaitanya.babu at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> >> Subject: [PATCH] lib/eventdev: fix null pointer dereferences coverity
> >> issue
> >>
> >> One issue caught by Coverity 340075
> >> *deref_ptr: Directly dereferencing pointer qp_info.
> >>
> >> In eca_enq_to_cryptodev() qp_info dereferenced without null check in
> >> both session and sessionless crypto ops.
> >>
> >> The fix is to access qp_info after null check.
> >>
> >> Coverity issue: 340075
> >> Fixes: 7901eac340 ("eventdev: add crypto adapter implementation")
> >> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Babu Talluri
> >> <tallurix.chaitanya.babu at intel.com>
> >> ---
> >>  lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_crypto_adapter.c | 4 ++--
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_crypto_adapter.c
> >> b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_crypto_adapter.c
> >> index 22d910816..4f3f57348 100644
> >> --- a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_crypto_adapter.c
> >> +++ b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_crypto_adapter.c
> >> @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ eca_enq_to_cryptodev(struct
> >> rte_event_crypto_adapter *adapter,
> >>  			cdev_id = m_data->request_info.cdev_id;
> >>  			qp_id = m_data->request_info.queue_pair_id;
> >>  			qp_info = &adapter->cdevs[cdev_id].qpairs[qp_id];
> >> -			if (!qp_info->qp_enabled) {
> >> +			if ((qp_info == NULL) || (!qp_info->qp_enabled)) {
> >qp_info cannot be null as the memory allocation is done in
> >rte_event_crypto_adapter_queue_pair_add() -> eca_add_queue_pair().
> >Please refer line #736 which is allocating memory for
> >"dev_info->dev->data-
> >>nb_queue_pairs"
> >
> >Without queue_pair_add(), service core cannot be started [Please look
> >at eca_init_service()].
> >This issue can be marked to ignore in klockworks.
> >
> 
> Yes, we observed that queue pairs are allocated earlier based on device config.
> But NULL check is done here just in case if queue pair id "qp_id" is invalid since
> this is fed from request info during enqueue.
> 
> Please let us know if still this change is not required, we will ignore this patch.
> 
> >>  				rte_pktmbuf_free(crypto_op->sym->m_src);
> >>  				rte_crypto_op_free(crypto_op);
> >>  				continue;
> >> @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ eca_enq_to_cryptodev(struct
> >> rte_event_crypto_adapter *adapter,
> >>  			cdev_id = m_data->request_info.cdev_id;
> >>  			qp_id = m_data->request_info.queue_pair_id;
> >>  			qp_info = &adapter->cdevs[cdev_id].qpairs[qp_id];
> >> -			if (!qp_info->qp_enabled) {
> >> +			if ((qp_info == NULL) || (!qp_info->qp_enabled)) {
> >>  				rte_pktmbuf_free(crypto_op->sym->m_src);
> >>  				rte_crypto_op_free(crypto_op);
> >>  				continue;
> >> --
> >> 2.17.2



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