[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] memalloc: fix pointer dereferencing

[Anatoly Burakov]

The original code was supposed to overwrite the value pointed to
by the pointer, but the new one is instead overwriting the
pointer value itself, which has no effect outside that function.
Fix it by adding a pointer dereference.

Fixes: 582bed1e1d1d ("mem: support mapping hugepages at runtime")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c
index 60a0a680f..ccf268679 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ prepare_numa(int *oldpolicy, struct bitmask *oldmask, int socket_id)
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
 			"Failed to get current mempolicy: %s. "
 			"Assuming MPOL_DEFAULT.\n", strerror(errno));
-		oldpolicy = MPOL_DEFAULT;
+		*oldpolicy = MPOL_DEFAULT;
 	}
 	RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL,
 		"Setting policy MPOL_PREFERRED for socket %d\n",
-- 
2.17.1