[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 05/19] vhost: fix error handling when mem table gets updated
Tiwei Bie
tiwei.bie at intel.com
Tue Oct 9 13:35:41 CEST 2018
On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 05:25:43PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> When the memory table gets updated, the rings addresses need
> to be translated again. If it fails, we need to exit cleanly
> by unmapping memory regions.
>
> Fixes: d5022533c20a ("vhost: retranslate vring addr when memory table changes")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
> index 71a0e7dd7..3f01926e2 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
> @@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ vhost_user_set_mem_table(struct virtio_net **pdev, struct VhostUserMsg *msg)
>
> dev = translate_ring_addresses(dev, i);
> if (!dev)
> - return VH_RESULT_ERR;
> + goto err_mmap;
When dev is NULL, we can't just goto err_mmap directly,
otherwise we will dereference the NULL pointer.
>
> *pdev = dev;
> }
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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