[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/softnic: fix null pointer dereference

[Singh, Jasvinder]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yu, DapengX <dapengx.yu at intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 9:15 AM
> To: Singh, Jasvinder <jasvinder.singh at intel.com>; Dumitrescu, Cristian
> <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Yu, DapengX <dapengx.yu at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] net/softnic: fix null pointer dereference
> 
> From: Dapeng Yu <dapengx.yu at intel.com>
> 
> When there is no "firmware" in arguments, the "firmware" pointer is null,
> and will be dereferenced by rte_strscpy().
> 
> This patch moves the code block which copies character string from
> "firmware" to "p->firmware" into the "if" statements where "firmware"
> argument exists and it is duplicated successfully.
> 
> Coverity issue: 372136
> Fixes: d8f852f5f369 ("net/softnic: fix memory leak in arguments parsing")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dapeng Yu <dapengx.yu at intel.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh at intel.com>