[PATCH] crypto/ipsec_mb: fix premature dereference

Piotr Bronowski piotrx.bronowski at intel.com
Sun Jan 16 20:40:43 CET 2022


This patch removes coverity defect CID 374380:
Null pointer dereferences  (REVERSE_INULL)

Coverity issue: CID 374380
Fixes: 918fd2f1466b ("crypto/ipsec_mb: move aesni_mb PMD")
Cc: roy.fan.zhang at intel.com

Signed-off-by: Piotr Bronowski <piotrx.bronowski at intel.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/ipsec_mb_private.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/ipsec_mb_private.h b/drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/ipsec_mb_private.h
index 866722d6f4..e53101acf1 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/ipsec_mb_private.h
+++ b/drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/ipsec_mb_private.h
@@ -191,13 +191,13 @@ ipsec_mb_parse_xform(const struct rte_crypto_sym_xform *xform,
 			const struct rte_crypto_sym_xform **cipher_xform,
 			const struct rte_crypto_sym_xform **aead_xform)
 {
-	const struct rte_crypto_sym_xform *next = xform->next;
-
 	if (xform == NULL) {
 		*mode = IPSEC_MB_OP_NOT_SUPPORTED;
 		return -ENOTSUP;
 	}
 
+	const struct rte_crypto_sym_xform *next = xform->next;
+
 	if (xform->type == RTE_CRYPTO_SYM_XFORM_CIPHER) {
 		if (next == NULL) {
 			if (xform->cipher.op == RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_OP_ENCRYPT) {
-- 
2.30.2

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