[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] net/ixgbe: set pointer to NULL after free

[Yunjian Wang]

When ixgbe_dev_close() is cleaning up, it does not correctly set
the security_ctx variable to NULL, which will lead to wild pointer.

Fixes: 9a0752f498d2 ("net/ixgbe: enable inline IPsec")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Acked-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
---
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
index 3d799d2187..7643842560 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
@@ -3038,6 +3038,7 @@ ixgbe_dev_close(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 
 #ifdef RTE_LIB_SECURITY
 	rte_free(dev->security_ctx);
+	dev->security_ctx = NULL;
 #endif
 
 	return ret;
-- 
2.27.0