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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, thomas@monjalon.net, ferruh.yigit@intel.com,
	arybchenko@solarflare.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] ethdev: fix null pointer checking
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 11:50:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190403115032.492e1c57@shemminger-XPS-13-9360> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190403160726.1231-1-mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>

On Wed,  3 Apr 2019 17:07:26 +0100
Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com> wrote:

> Null value for parameter name will cause segfault for the
> strnlen and strcmp functions.
> 
> Fixes: 0b33b68d12 ("ethdev: export allocate function")
> Fixes: 942661004c ("ethdev: export secondary attach function")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> index 10bdfb37e..26898ed08 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> @@ -440,6 +440,11 @@ rte_eth_dev_allocate(const char *name)
>  	struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev = NULL;
>  	size_t name_len;
>  
> +	if (name == NULL) {
> +		RTE_ETHDEV_LOG(ERR, "Null pointer is specified\n");
> +		return NULL;
> +	}
> +

Ok, but I doubt that a driver that is so buggy that it passes NULL
that it will do any proper error handling on return of NULL.
Would rather just see the application crash hard immediately.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-03 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-03 16:07 Mohammad Abdul Awal
2019-04-03 16:07 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2019-04-03 16:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-03 16:27   ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-03 16:35   ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-03 16:35     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-03 16:41     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-03 16:41       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-03 16:52       ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-03 16:52         ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-03 17:32         ` David Marchand
2019-04-03 17:32           ` David Marchand
2019-04-04  8:33           ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2019-04-04  8:33             ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2019-04-03 17:30     ` Awal, Mohammad Abdul
2019-04-03 17:30       ` Awal, Mohammad Abdul
2019-04-03 18:42       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-03 18:42         ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-03 18:50 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-04-03 18:50   ` Stephen Hemminger

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