[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] hash: fix possible uninitialized variable

Haiyang Tan haiyangtan at tencent.com
Sat Dec 22 13:10:59 CET 2018


The uninitialized field 'extra_flag' of hash_cuckoo_params may enable
certain feature silently. Typically, if bit0 of 'extra_flag' set, the
hardware transactional memory support will be enabled unexpectedly.

Signed-off-by: Haiyang Tan <haiyangtan at tencent.com>
---
 lib/librte_table/rte_table_hash_cuckoo.c | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_table/rte_table_hash_cuckoo.c b/lib/librte_table/rte_table_hash_cuckoo.c
index f02430333..25fc3a10b 100644
--- a/lib/librte_table/rte_table_hash_cuckoo.c
+++ b/lib/librte_table/rte_table_hash_cuckoo.c
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ rte_table_hash_cuckoo_create(void *params,
 			uint32_t entry_size)
 {
 	struct rte_table_hash_cuckoo_params *p = params;
+	struct rte_hash_parameters hash_cuckoo_params = { 0 };
 	struct rte_hash *h_table;
 	struct rte_table_hash *t;
 	uint32_t total_size;
@@ -103,14 +104,12 @@ rte_table_hash_cuckoo_create(void *params,
 	}
 
 	/* Create cuckoo hash table */
-	struct rte_hash_parameters hash_cuckoo_params = {
-		.entries = p->n_keys,
-		.key_len = p->key_size,
-		.hash_func = p->f_hash,
-		.hash_func_init_val = p->seed,
-		.socket_id = socket_id,
-		.name = p->name
-	};
+	hash_cuckoo_params.entries = p->n_keys;
+	hash_cuckoo_params.key_len = p->key_size;
+	hash_cuckoo_params.hash_func = p->f_hash;
+	hash_cuckoo_params.hash_func_init_val = p->seed;
+	hash_cuckoo_params.socket_id = socket_id;
+	hash_cuckoo_params.name = p->name;
 
 	h_table = rte_hash_find_existing(p->name);
 	if (h_table == NULL) {
-- 
2.14.1




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