[dpdk-dev] app/testpmd: fix dereference null return valiue

Message ID 20180122151504.107427-1-jasvinder.singh@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
Headers

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Context Check Description
ci/checkpatch success coding style OK
ci/Intel-compilation fail Compilation issues

Commit Message

Jasvinder Singh Jan. 22, 2018, 3:15 p.m. UTC
  Malloc() function might return NULL due to insufficient space. Therefore,
check for handling memory allocation failure is added.

Coverity issue: 257039
Fixes: e63b50162aa3 ("app/testpmd: clean metering and policing commands")

Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
---
 app/test-pmd/cmdline_mtr.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Comments

Thomas Monjalon Jan. 31, 2018, 10:27 p.m. UTC | #1
22/01/2018 16:15, Jasvinder Singh:
> Malloc() function might return NULL due to insufficient space. Therefore,
> check for handling memory allocation failure is added.
> 
> Coverity issue: 257039
> Fixes: e63b50162aa3 ("app/testpmd: clean metering and policing commands")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>

Applied, thanks
  

Patch

diff --git a/app/test-pmd/cmdline_mtr.c b/app/test-pmd/cmdline_mtr.c
index 96a851b..f908fb3 100644
--- a/app/test-pmd/cmdline_mtr.c
+++ b/app/test-pmd/cmdline_mtr.c
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@  parse_dscp_table_entries(char *str, enum rte_mtr_color *dscp_table)
 	/* Allocate memory for dscp table */
 	dscp_table = (enum rte_mtr_color *)malloc(MAX_DSCP_TABLE_ENTRIES *
 		sizeof(enum rte_mtr_color));
+	if (dscp_table == NULL)
+		return -1;
 
 	while (1) {
 		if (strcmp(token, "G") == 0 ||
@@ -105,8 +107,10 @@  parse_dscp_table_entries(char *str, enum rte_mtr_color *dscp_table)
 			break;
 
 		token = strtok_r(str, PARSE_DELIMITER, &str);
-		if (token == NULL)
+		if (token == NULL) {
+			free(dscp_table);
 			return -1;
+		}
 	}
 	return 0;
 }