[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/10] Coverity fixes for EAL memory

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Tue Apr 17 18:09:37 CEST 2018


On 17-Apr-18 4:56 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 17/04/2018 17:50, Anatoly Burakov:
>> This patchset fixes a host of coverity issues in memory subsystem
>> introduced with recent DPDK memory hotplug patchset.
>>
>> Coverity issues fixed:
>> - 272601 - leaking fd
>> - 272560 - double close fd
>> - 272568 - leaking fd
>> - 272570 - leaking fd
>> - 272589 - dereference before null check
>> - 272602 - freeing wrong pointer
>> - 272608 - expression does nothing
>> - 272577 - negative return not handled
>> - 272578 - negative return not handled
>> - 272584 - use after free
> 
> Looks like you should buy a Coverity license
> to run it locally before submitting ;)
> 

Well, in fairness, most of these issues (and similar issues submitted in 
another patchset) will not ever manifest themselves under normal 
circumstances, so it's not as bad as it perhaps might present itself.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly


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