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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:24:06 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Weiguo Li <liwg06@foxmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org, Weiguo Li <liweiguo@xencore.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devargs: fix derefrence before null test
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:45:29 +0800
Weiguo Li <liwg06@foxmail.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
> b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c index fb5d0a293b..8d6c3938eb
> 100644 --- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
> +++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
> @@ -185,11 +185,13 @@ rte_devargs_parse(struct rte_devargs *da, const
> char *dev) {
>  	struct rte_bus *bus = NULL;
>  	const char *devname;
> -	const size_t maxlen = sizeof(da->name);
>  	size_t i;
>  
>  	if (da == NULL)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	const size_t maxlen = sizeof(da->name);
> +
>  	memset(da, 0, sizeof(*da));
>  
>  	/* First parse according global device syntax. */

NAK
This patch is not necessary. Doing sizeof() on a NULL structure pointer
is allowed. It is valid C.