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From: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Qiming Yang
> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 11:56 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Yang, Qiming <qiming.yang@intel.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib: add warning for NULL pointer
>=20
> May return NULL when manage tries for packet in acl library. So
> this patch added warning for the NULL pointer return.
>=20
> Fixes: 074f54ad03ee ("acl: fix build and runtime for default target")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang@intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_acl/acl_run.h | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>=20
> diff --git a/lib/librte_acl/acl_run.h b/lib/librte_acl/acl_run.h
> index bf7842d..6c718c0 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_acl/acl_run.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_acl/acl_run.h
> @@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ acl_start_next_trie(struct acl_flow_data *flows, stru=
ct parms *parms, int n,
>  				flows->num_packets * flows->categories);
>  		}
>=20
> +		if (flows->last_cmplt =3D=3D NULL)
> +			RTE_LOG(WARNING, MALLOC, "packet tries allocate failed");
> +

alloc_completion() should never retrun NULL
(unless something is totally broken).
So no need to handle such situation.
If you desire - feel free to add
RTE_ASSERT(flows->last_cmplt !=3D NULL)
here.
Konstantin

>  		/* set completion parameters and starting index for this slot */
>  		parms[n].cmplt =3D flows->last_cmplt;
>  		transition =3D
> --
> 2.9.5