[PATCH] net/iavf: fix null pointer dereference

Weiguo Li liwg06 at foxmail.com
Tue Jan 25 15:23:14 CET 2022


Check for memory allocation failure is added to avoid null
pointer dereference.

Fixes: 6bc987ecb860 ("net/iavf: support IPsec inline crypto")

Signed-off-by: Weiguo Li <liwg06 at foxmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ipsec_crypto.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ipsec_crypto.c b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ipsec_crypto.c
index adf101ab8a..ac67aa28f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ipsec_crypto.c
+++ b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ipsec_crypto.c
@@ -1352,6 +1352,8 @@ iavf_ipsec_crypto_set_security_capabililites(struct iavf_security_ctx
 	capabilities = rte_zmalloc("crypto_cap",
 		sizeof(struct rte_cryptodev_capabilities) *
 		(number_of_capabilities + 1), 0);
+	if (!capabilities)
+		return (-ENOMEM);
 	capabilities[number_of_capabilities].op = RTE_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_UNDEFINED;
 
 	/**
-- 
2.25.1



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