Acked-by: Kai Ji <kai.ji@intel.com>

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From: Finn, Emma <emma.finn@intel.com>
Sent: 28 August 2025 10:28
To: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gmuthukrishn@marvell.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org <dev@dpdk.org>; Ji, Kai <kai.ji@intel.com>; Finn, Emma <emma.finn@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] examples/fips_validation: fix dangling pointer for SHA test

Set vector pointer to NULL after free to avoid calling rte_free()
on the same pointer twice in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Emma Finn <emma.finn@intel.com>
---
 examples/fips_validation/main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/examples/fips_validation/main.c b/examples/fips_validation/main.c
index f21826e9d7..60ee9f8dd4 100644
--- a/examples/fips_validation/main.c
+++ b/examples/fips_validation/main.c
@@ -2612,7 +2612,7 @@ fips_mct_sha_test(void)
                 rte_free(md[i].val);

         rte_free(vec.pt.val);
-
+       vec.pt.val = NULL;
         rte_free(val.val);
         return 0;
 }
--
2.34.1