[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/fips_validation: fix null pointer dereferences

Akhil Goyal akhil.goyal at nxp.com
Mon Sep 30 22:21:31 CEST 2019



> 
> One issue caught by Coverity 343408
> *deref_parm: Directly dereferencing parameter val->val.
> 
> In writeback_tdes_hex_str(), tmp_val is initialised to null.
> tmp_val.val is updated only if keys are found.
> If keys are not found,it doesn't fails but continues
> to invoke writeback_hex_str(),where val->val is accessed
> without null check.
> 
> The fix is to return the error,
> if keys are not found in writeback_tdes_hex_str().
> 
> Coverity issue: 343408
> Fixes: 527cbf3d5e ("examples/fips_validation: support TDES parsing")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Babu Talluri <tallurix.chaitanya.babu at intel.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-crypto

Thanks.


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