Re: [PATCH v2] net/iavf: fix pointer of meter data

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 11/11/2021 6:31 AM, Alvin Zhang wrote:
> This patch fixes coverity issue by directly passing the address
> of the meter data to lower function.
> 
> Coverity issue: 373867
> 
> Fixes: 91f27b2e39ab ("net/iavf: refactor RSS")

As far as I can see fixed commit is:
Fixes: 7be10c3004be ("net/iavf: add RSS configuration for VF")

I will update in the next-net, can you please double check?

> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alvin Zhang <alvinx.zhang@intel.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/iavf/iavf_hash.c | 5 ++---
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_hash.c b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_hash.c
> index 55d8a11..5e0888e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_hash.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_hash.c
> @@ -1261,10 +1261,9 @@ struct rss_attr_type {
>   static int
>   iavf_hash_parse_action(struct iavf_pattern_match_item *match_item,
>   		       const struct rte_flow_action actions[],
> -		       uint64_t pattern_hint, void **meta,
> +		       uint64_t pattern_hint, struct iavf_rss_meta *rss_meta,
>   		       struct rte_flow_error *error)
>   {
> -	struct iavf_rss_meta *rss_meta = (struct iavf_rss_meta *)*meta;
>   	struct virtchnl_proto_hdrs *proto_hdrs;
>   	enum rte_flow_action_type action_type;
>   	const struct rte_flow_action_rss *rss;
> @@ -1378,7 +1377,7 @@ struct rss_attr_type {
>   		goto error;
>   
>   	ret = iavf_hash_parse_action(pattern_match_item, actions, phint,
> -				     (void **)&rss_meta_ptr, error);
> +				     rss_meta_ptr, error);
>   
>   error:
>   	if (!ret && meta)
>