[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/2] examples/fips_validation: fix resetting pointer

Ciara Power ciara.power at intel.com
Thu Aug 12 16:24:35 CEST 2021


The env.digest memory was freed, but the pointer was not set to NULL
afterwards. This caused an "Invalid Memory" error, as the pointer tries
to free twice.

Fixes: 952e10cdad5e ("examples/fips_validation: support scatter gather list")
Cc: roy.fan.zhang at intel.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com>
---
 examples/fips_validation/main.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/examples/fips_validation/main.c b/examples/fips_validation/main.c
index 2db00620ce..5d14513a58 100644
--- a/examples/fips_validation/main.c
+++ b/examples/fips_validation/main.c
@@ -1846,8 +1846,10 @@ fips_test_one_file(void)
 
 	fips_test_clear();
 
-	if (env.digest)
+	if (env.digest) {
 		rte_free(env.digest);
+		env.digest = NULL;
+	}
 	if (env.mbuf)
 		rte_pktmbuf_free(env.mbuf);
 
-- 
2.25.1



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