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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: "Namburu, Chandu-babu" <chandu@amd.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, "835703180@qq.com" <835703180@qq.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto/ccp: Check for the NULL pointer after calling rte_malloc
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:43:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8wSpHR-67uHDHgw8oAwsOs0HqyAA_okvgi5S_08PiNFfQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN1PR12MB254448054BD7321762898094C88E9@SN1PR12MB2544.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 8:29 AM Namburu, Chandu-babu <chandu@amd.com> wrote:
> From: Shiqi Liu <835703180@qq.com>
>
> As the possible failure of the rte_malloc(), the not_checked and checked could be NULL pointer.
> Therefore, it should be better to check it in order to avoid the dereference of the NULL pointer.
>
> Fixes: 09a0fd736a0 ("crypto/ccp: enable IOMMU")
> Signed-off-by: Shiqi Liu <835703180@qq.com>

This sha_ctx variable and its accesses are suspicious.

It seems to be used as some kind of intermediate buffer, but I fail to
see the need.
Can't the existing code rely on sess->auth.ctx ?

There is also a suspicious mention (in ccp_perform_sha) of sha_ctx but
with no calling rte_mem_virt2iova().


-- 
David Marchand


  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-20 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-09 11:01 835703180
2022-07-20  6:29 ` Namburu, Chandu-babu
2022-07-20 13:43   ` David Marchand [this message]
2022-08-16 16:01     ` [EXT] " Akhil Goyal
2022-08-23  6:14       ` Namburu, Chandu-babu
2022-07-20 15:42   ` Stephen Hemminger

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