[PATCH 2/3] eventdev: fix uninitialized variable

Gujjar, Abhinandan S abhinandan.gujjar at intel.com
Wed Nov 27 11:49:05 CET 2024



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ma, WenwuX <wenwux.ma at intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 12:18 PM
> To: ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com; somnath.kotur at broadcom.com;
> amitprakashs at marvell.com; Gujjar, Abhinandan S
> <abhinandan.gujjar at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org; stable at dpdk.org
> Cc: Liao, TingtingX <tingtingx.liao at intel.com>; Ma, WenwuX
> <wenwux.ma at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] eventdev: fix uninitialized variable
> 
> This patch fixes the variable 'events' may be used uninitialized.
> 
> Fixes: 7901eac3409a ("eventdev: add crypto adapter implementation")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenwu Ma <wenwux.ma at intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/eventdev/rte_event_crypto_adapter.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/eventdev/rte_event_crypto_adapter.c
> b/lib/eventdev/rte_event_crypto_adapter.c
> index 939ca1cad9..1ca839510b 100644
> --- a/lib/eventdev/rte_event_crypto_adapter.c
> +++ b/lib/eventdev/rte_event_crypto_adapter.c
> @@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ eca_ops_enqueue_burst(struct
> event_crypto_adapter *adapter,
>  	nb_ev = 0;
>  	retry = 0;
>  	nb_enqueued = 0;
> +	memset(events, 0, sizeof(events));
There is a rte_memcpy() at line number 699 which is copying response information as event into this.
So, that will initialize all the event fields. We don't require to initialize events here.

>  	num = RTE_MIN(num, BATCH_SIZE);
>  	for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
>  		struct rte_event *ev = &events[nb_ev++];
> --
> 2.34.1



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