[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib: add warning for NULL pointer
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Dec 5 18:06:13 CET 2018
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 19:55:31 +0800
Qiming Yang <qiming.yang at intel.com> wrote:
> May return NULL when manage tries for packet in acl library. So
> this patch added warning for the NULL pointer return.
>
> Fixes: 074f54ad03ee ("acl: fix build and runtime for default target")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang at intel.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_acl/acl_run.h | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_acl/acl_run.h b/lib/librte_acl/acl_run.h
> index bf7842d..6c718c0 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_acl/acl_run.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_acl/acl_run.h
> @@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ acl_start_next_trie(struct acl_flow_data *flows, struct parms *parms, int n,
> flows->num_packets * flows->categories);
> }
>
> + if (flows->last_cmplt == NULL)
> + RTE_LOG(WARNING, MALLOC, "packet tries allocate failed");
> +
> /* set completion parameters and starting index for this slot */
> parms[n].cmplt = flows->last_cmplt;
> transition =
It would be better to return -ENOMEM and let caller handle the error.
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