[PATCH] compress/octeontx: fix null pointer dereference

Weiguo Li liwg06 at foxmail.com
Tue Jan 25 15:33:15 CET 2022


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

Signed-off-by: Weiguo Li <liwg06 at foxmail.com>
---
 drivers/compress/octeontx/otx_zip_pmd.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/compress/octeontx/otx_zip_pmd.c b/drivers/compress/octeontx/otx_zip_pmd.c
index dd62285b86..1b6178f661 100644
--- a/drivers/compress/octeontx/otx_zip_pmd.c
+++ b/drivers/compress/octeontx/otx_zip_pmd.c
@@ -392,6 +392,8 @@ zip_pmd_qp_setup(struct rte_compressdev *dev, uint16_t qp_id,
 	}
 
 	name =  rte_malloc(NULL, RTE_COMPRESSDEV_NAME_MAX_LEN, 0);
+	if (name == NULL)
+		return (-ENOMEM);
 	snprintf(name, RTE_COMPRESSDEV_NAME_MAX_LEN,
 		 "zip_pmd_%u_qp_%u",
 		 dev->data->dev_id, qp_id);
@@ -399,8 +401,10 @@ zip_pmd_qp_setup(struct rte_compressdev *dev, uint16_t qp_id,
 	/* Allocate the queue pair data structure. */
 	qp = rte_zmalloc_socket(name, sizeof(*qp),
 				RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, socket_id);
-	if (qp == NULL)
+	if (qp == NULL) {
+		rte_free(name);
 		return (-ENOMEM);
+	}
 
 	qp->name = name;
 
-- 
2.25.1



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