[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] compress/isal: fix use after free

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue May 21 16:47:13 CEST 2019


The release function was using qp->stream after already
releasing it and the null pointer checking was missing.

Also since rte_free(NULL) is a no-op, remove unnecessary
checks for NULL.

Coverity issure: 340860
Fixes: dc49e6aa4879 ("compress/isal: add ISA-L compression functionality")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/compress/isal/isal_compress_pmd_ops.c | 14 ++++----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/compress/isal/isal_compress_pmd_ops.c b/drivers/compress/isal/isal_compress_pmd_ops.c
index fe9995992304..77ac6fcf21fc 100644
--- a/drivers/compress/isal/isal_compress_pmd_ops.c
+++ b/drivers/compress/isal/isal_compress_pmd_ops.c
@@ -171,18 +171,12 @@ isal_comp_pmd_qp_release(struct rte_compressdev *dev, uint16_t qp_id)
 	if (qp == NULL)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (qp->stream != NULL)
-		rte_free(qp->stream);
-
-	if (qp->stream->level_buf != NULL)
+	if (qp->stream)
 		rte_free(qp->stream->level_buf);
 
-	if (qp->state != NULL)
-		rte_free(qp->state);
-
-	if (qp->processed_pkts != NULL)
-		rte_ring_free(qp->processed_pkts);
-
+	rte_free(qp->state);
+	rte_ring_free(qp->processed_pkts);
+	rte_free(qp->stream);
 	rte_free(qp);
 	dev->data->queue_pairs[qp_id] = NULL;
 
-- 
2.20.1



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