From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by dpdk.space (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F9FA0096 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2019 11:47:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128932C55; Mon, 8 Apr 2019 11:47:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848522C55; Mon, 8 Apr 2019 11:47:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 08 Apr 2019 02:46:59 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.60,324,1549958400"; d="scan'208";a="221512817" Received: from silpixa00399126.ir.intel.com (HELO silpixa00399126.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.237.222.236]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Apr 2019 02:46:57 -0700 From: Bruce Richardson To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Bruce Richardson , stable@dpdk.org, Maxime Coquelin , Tiwei Bie , Zhihong Wang Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 10:46:37 +0100 Message-Id: <20190408094640.46030-3-bruce.richardson@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20190408094640.46030-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> References: <20190405134511.49066-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> <20190408094640.46030-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 2/5] examples/vhost_scsi: fix missing NULL-check for parameter X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "stable" Coverity points out that there is a check in the main thread loop for the ctrlr->bdev being NULL, but by that stage the pointer has already been dereferenced. Therefore, for safety, before we enter the loop do an initial check on the parameter structure. Coverity issue: 158657 Fixes: db75c7af19bb ("examples/vhost_scsi: introduce a new sample app") CC: stable@dpdk.org CC: Maxime Coquelin CC: Tiwei Bie CC: Zhihong Wang Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson --- examples/vhost_scsi/vhost_scsi.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/examples/vhost_scsi/vhost_scsi.c b/examples/vhost_scsi/vhost_scsi.c index 2908ff68b..513af0cca 100644 --- a/examples/vhost_scsi/vhost_scsi.c +++ b/examples/vhost_scsi/vhost_scsi.c @@ -285,6 +285,12 @@ ctrlr_worker(void *arg) cpu_set_t cpuset; pthread_t thread; + if (ctrlr == NULL || ctrlr->bdev == NULL) { + fprintf(stderr, "%s: Error, invalid argument passed to worker thread\n", + __func__); + exit(0); + } + thread = pthread_self(); CPU_ZERO(&cpuset); CPU_SET(0, &cpuset); -- 2.20.1