[PATCH v5 09/11] net/ntnic: check result of malloc

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Feb 11 18:35:29 CET 2025


Need to check the result of malloc() before calling memset.
This is only place in this driver that forgot, other code
does check.

Fixes: 0d9bca480e26 ("net/ntnic: add FPGA modules for initialization")
cc: stable at dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/ntnic/nthw/nthw_rac.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ntnic/nthw/nthw_rac.c b/drivers/net/ntnic/nthw/nthw_rac.c
index ca6aba6db2..f275e64da3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ntnic/nthw/nthw_rac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ntnic/nthw/nthw_rac.c
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@
 nthw_rac_t *nthw_rac_new(void)
 {
 	nthw_rac_t *p = malloc(sizeof(nthw_rac_t));
-	memset(p, 0, sizeof(nthw_rac_t));
+
+	if (p)
+		memset(p, 0, sizeof(nthw_rac_t));
 	return p;
 }
 
-- 
2.47.2



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