[PATCH 0/2] mlx5: fix miss NULL check in devargs parsing
Raslan Darawsheh
rasland at nvidia.com
Tue Oct 25 15:54:12 CEST 2022
Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Baum <michaelba at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2022 3:34 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland at nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 0/2] mlx5: fix miss NULL check in devargs parsing
>
> The MLX5 PMD parses the devargs in several places.
> It gets structure called "devargs" as a member of EAL device containing all
> needed information.
>
> When "devargs" structure is invalid, the PMD avoids parsing it.
> However, when it valid but its field "args" is invalid, the PMD tries to parse it
> and dereference to NULL pointer.
>
> Those patches add checks to avoid these NULL dereferencing.
>
>
> Michael Baum (2):
> common/mlx5: fix miss null check in devargs parsing
> net/mlx5: fix miss null check in ETH devargs parsing
>
> drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.c | 8 +++++---
> drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.25.1
Series applied to next-net-mlx,
Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh
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