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From: Sean Morrissey <sean.morrissey@intel.com>
To: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>, Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li@intel.com>,
	Aman Singh <aman.deep.singh@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Sean Morrissey <sean.morrissey@intel.com>,
	stable@dpdk.org, wei.zhao1@intel.com
Subject: [PATCH v1] app/testpmd: fix dereference before null check
Date: Thu,  9 Dec 2021 16:27:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211209162727.12295-1-sean.morrissey@intel.com> (raw)

Assign 'left' variable only after null check on 'size'
as function returns if 'size' is null.

Coverity issue: 374381
Fixes: 169a9fed1f4 ("app/testpmd: fix hex string parser support for flow API")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Cc: wei.zhao1@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Sean Morrissey <sean.morrissey@intel.com>
---
 app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c b/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c
index bbe3dc0115..5bb7abcced 100644
--- a/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c
+++ b/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c
@@ -7702,7 +7702,6 @@ parse_string(struct context *ctx, const struct token *token,
 static int
 parse_hex_string(const char *src, uint8_t *dst, uint32_t *size)
 {
-	uint32_t left = *size;
 	const uint8_t *head = dst;
 
 	/* Check input parameters */
@@ -7712,6 +7711,8 @@ parse_hex_string(const char *src, uint8_t *dst, uint32_t *size)
 		(*size == 0))
 		return -1;
 
+	uint32_t left = *size;
+
 	/* Convert chars to bytes */
 	while (left) {
 		char tmp[3], *end = tmp;
-- 
2.25.1


             reply	other threads:[~2021-12-09 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-09 16:27 Sean Morrissey [this message]
2022-01-18  9:59 ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-01-18 10:53 ` [PATCH v2] " Sean Morrissey
2022-01-18 13:28   ` Ferruh Yigit

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