[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] event/dpaa2: fix dereference before null check

[Jerin Jacob]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 4:23 PM Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta at nxp.com> wrote:
>
> Acked-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta at nxp.com>


Applied to dpdk-next-eventdev/for-main. Thanks.


>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wangyunjian <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 6:38 PM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org; Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Nipun Gupta
> > <nipun.gupta at nxp.com>
> > Cc: jerry.lilijun at huawei.com; xudingke at huawei.com; Yunjian Wang
> > <wangyunjian at huawei.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] event/dpaa2: fix dereference before null check
> >
> > From: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> >
> > Coverity flags that 'portal' variable is used before
> > it's checked for NULL. This patch fixes this issue.
> >
> > Coverity issue: 323516
> > Fixes: 4ab57b042e7c ("event/dpaa2: affine portal at runtime during I/O")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/event/dpaa2/dpaa2_eventdev.c | 8 ++++----
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/event/dpaa2/dpaa2_eventdev.c
> > b/drivers/event/dpaa2/dpaa2_eventdev.c
> > index 3ae4441ee..f7383ca73 100644
> > --- a/drivers/event/dpaa2/dpaa2_eventdev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/event/dpaa2/dpaa2_eventdev.c
> > @@ -569,14 +569,14 @@ dpaa2_eventdev_port_release(void *port)
> >
> >       EVENTDEV_INIT_FUNC_TRACE();
> >
> > +     if (portal == NULL)
> > +             return;
> > +
> >       /* TODO: Cleanup is required when ports are in linked state. */
> >       if (portal->is_port_linked)
> >               DPAA2_EVENTDEV_WARN("Event port must be unlinked before
> > release");
> >
> > -     if (portal)
> > -             rte_free(portal);
> > -
> > -     portal = NULL;
> > +     rte_free(portal);
> >  }
> >
> >  static int
> > --
> > 2.23.0
> >
>