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From: Jens Freimann <jfreimann@redhat.com>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, tiwei.bie@intel.com, zhihong.wang@intel.com,
	stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] vhost: fix possible null pointer dereferencing
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:30:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181127103028.tsbjraer4oz3wiss@jenstp.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181127095451.18217-1-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:54:51AM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>If mmap() call fails in vhost_user_set_mem_table, dev->mem
>is set to NULL. If later, qva_to_vva() is called, a segfault
>occurs.
>
>Fixes: 8f972312b8f4 ("vhost: support vhost-user")
>Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
>Reviewed-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
>Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
>---
> lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>

Jumping to an out label would have worked as well, but it doesn't
really matter.

Reviewed-by: Jens Freimann <jfreimann@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-27 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-27  9:54 Maxime Coquelin
2018-11-27 10:30 ` Jens Freimann [this message]
2018-12-11 18:30   ` Maxime Coquelin

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