[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: fix coverity defect

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Tue Apr 5 08:00:43 CEST 2016


Fix following coverity defect:

    291     void
    292     vhost_destroy_device(struct vhost_device_ctx ctx)
    293     {
    294             struct virtio_net *dev = get_device(ctx);
    295
    >>>     CID 124565:  Null pointer dereferences  (NULL_RETURNS)
    >>>     Dereferencing a null pointer "dev".

Fixes: 45ca9c6f7bc6 ("vhost: get rid of linked list for devices")

Reported-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c
index 90da9ba..d870ad9 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c
@@ -293,6 +293,9 @@ vhost_destroy_device(struct vhost_device_ctx ctx)
 {
 	struct virtio_net *dev = get_device(ctx);
 
+	if (dev == NULL)
+		return;
+
 	if (dev->flags & VIRTIO_DEV_RUNNING)
 		notify_ops->destroy_device(dev);
 
-- 
1.9.0



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