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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>,
	 Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/fips_validation: fix resource leak on failure
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:08:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8x2Lm=T1eOv=kaOQi_Av6RLZRx9o-yvL3=RaLFqgJ+LVQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201028155327.104488-1-ciara.power@intel.com>

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 4:53 PM Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com> wrote:
>
> The dst variable went out of scope on failure in the get_writeback_data
> function. This is now freed before returning -1.
>
> Coverity issue: 363453
> Fixes: 952e10cdad5e ("examples/fips_validation: support scatter gather list")
> Cc: roy.fan.zhang@intel.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
> ---
>  examples/fips_validation/main.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/examples/fips_validation/main.c b/examples/fips_validation/main.c
> index 07532c9562..be38eb29b6 100644
> --- a/examples/fips_validation/main.c
> +++ b/examples/fips_validation/main.c
> @@ -1128,6 +1128,7 @@ get_writeback_data(struct fips_val *val)
>
>         if (data_len) {
>                 RTE_LOG(ERR, USER1, "Error -1: write back data\n");
> +               free(dst);

Hum should we instead free the pointer to the allocated buffer, i.e.
wb_data, rather than dst that got potentially incremented?


-- 
David Marchand


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-30 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-28 15:53 Ciara Power
2020-10-30 13:08 ` David Marchand [this message]
2020-10-30 17:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ciara Power
2020-10-31 17:09   ` David Marchand

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