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Acked-by: Kai Ji <kai.ji@intel.com></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Finn, Emma <emma.finn@intel.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 28 August 2025 10:28<br>
<b>To:</b> Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gmuthukrishn@marvell.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> dev@dpdk.org <dev@dpdk.org>; Ji, Kai <kai.ji@intel.com>; Finn, Emma <emma.finn@intel.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PATCH] examples/fips_validation: fix dangling pointer for SHA test</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Set vector pointer to NULL after free to avoid calling rte_free()<br>
on the same pointer twice in some cases.<br>
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Signed-off-by: Emma Finn <emma.finn@intel.com><br>
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examples/fips_validation/main.c | 2 +-<br>
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)<br>
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diff --git a/examples/fips_validation/main.c b/examples/fips_validation/main.c<br>
index f21826e9d7..60ee9f8dd4 100644<br>
--- a/examples/fips_validation/main.c<br>
+++ b/examples/fips_validation/main.c<br>
@@ -2612,7 +2612,7 @@ fips_mct_sha_test(void)<br>
rte_free(md[i].val);<br>
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rte_free(vec.pt.val);<br>
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+ vec.pt.val = NULL;<br>
rte_free(val.val);<br>
return 0;<br>
}<br>
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2.34.1<br>
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