[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] test/timer: fix memzone reserve failure check

[Thomas Monjalon]

04/05/2021 03:07, Min Hu (Connor):
> Segmentation fault may occur without checking if memzone
> reserves succeed or not.

The sentence is confusing. Please try to make it more logical.
Something like "It was potentially dereferencing a null pointer.
It is fixed by checking the pointer before dereferencing."

> 
> This patch fixed it.
> 
> Fixes: 50247fe03fe0 ("test/timer: exercise new APIs in secondary process")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Min Hu (Connor) <humin29 at huawei.com>
[...]
> -		test_info = mz->addr;
> -		TEST_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(test_info, "Couldn't allocate memory for "
> +		TEST_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(mz, "Couldn't allocate memory for "
>  				     "test data");

Error messages should not be split. I makes search difficult.
Please fix it in this patch while touching this line.