[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/14] bus/dpaa: fix null pointer dereference

[Gaëtan Rivet]

On 11/06/20 23:37 +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> This patches fixes a null pointer derefencing that happens
> when the device string passed to the iterator is NULL. This
> situation can happen when iterating on a class type.
> For example:
> 
> RTE_DEV_FOREACH(dev, "class=eth", &dev_iter) {
>     ...
> }
> 

Given this fix and the next, this seems like an oversight / bug from the
iterator actually.  Those two fixes are still correct but the root cause
should be addressed.

> Fixes: e79df833d3f6 ("bus/dpaa: support hotplug ops")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Cc: shreyansh.jain at nxp.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c b/drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c
> index d53fe6083a..216f38acd4 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c
> @@ -703,6 +703,11 @@ dpaa_bus_dev_iterate(const void *start, const char *str,
>  	struct rte_dpaa_device *dev;
>  	char *dup, *dev_name = NULL;
>  
> +	if (str == NULL) {
> +		DPAA_BUS_DEBUG("No device string\n");
> +		return NULL;
> +	}
> +
>  	/* Expectation is that device would be name=device_name */
>  	if (strncmp(str, "name=", 5) != 0) {
>  		DPAA_BUS_DEBUG("Invalid device string (%s)\n", str);
> -- 
> 2.26.2
> 

-- 
Gaëtan