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[1/2] vhost: fix accessing uninitialized variables

Message ID 20210407032516.79091-1-yong.liu@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Maxime Coquelin
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Series [1/2] vhost: fix accessing uninitialized variables |

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Commit Message

Marvin Liu April 7, 2021, 3:25 a.m. UTC 
  This patch fixs coverity issue by adding initialization step before
using temporary virtio header.

Coverity issue: 366181
Fixes: fb3815cc614d ("vhost: handle virtually non-contiguous buffers in Rx-mrg")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Marvin Liu <yong.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

Comments

Chenbo Xia April 7, 2021, 6:53 a.m. UTC | #1 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liu, Yong <yong.liu@intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 11:25 AM
> To: maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Liu, Yong <yong.liu@intel.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] vhost: fix accessing uninitialized variables
> 
> This patch fixs coverity issue by adding initialization step before
> using temporary virtio header.
> 
> Coverity issue: 366181
> Fixes: fb3815cc614d ("vhost: handle virtually non-contiguous buffers in Rx-
> mrg")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marvin Liu <yong.liu@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> --
> 2.17.1

Series applied to next-virtio/main, Thanks
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Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
index 7f621fb6dd..48b013a9b4 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
@@ -812,9 +812,10 @@  copy_mbuf_to_desc(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 
 	hdr_mbuf = m;
 	hdr_addr = buf_addr;
-	if (unlikely(buf_len < dev->vhost_hlen))
+	if (unlikely(buf_len < dev->vhost_hlen)) {
+		memset(&tmp_hdr, 0, sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf));
 		hdr = &tmp_hdr;
-	else
+	} else
 		hdr = (struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf *)(uintptr_t)hdr_addr;
 
 	VHOST_LOG_DATA(DEBUG, "(%d) RX: num merge buffers %d\n",