[PATCH 1/1] net/sfc: add explicit fail path for unknown tunnel flow type

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at amd.com
Mon Jul 17 16:12:32 CEST 2023


On 7/17/2023 9:27 AM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> On 7/14/23 15:41, Ivan Malov wrote:
>> The driver supports flow tunnel offload. When the parsed rule
>> type is unknown, which must not happen, the driver does not
>> properly indicate the failure in non-debug builds. That
>> presumably makes Coverity report possible NULL pointer
>> dereference in regard with uninitialised HW match
>> specification (which gets properly initialised
>> when the rule type check is successful).
>>
>> In order to fix this, replace the debug
>> assert with a proper runtime fail path.
>>
>> Coverity issue: 393675
>> Fixes: 73e01736868b ("net/sfc: turn MAE flow action rules into
>> shareable resources")
>> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <ivan.malov at arknetworks.am>
> 
> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>
> 

Applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.


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