[dpdk-dev] null: Fix dereference before null check in eth_null_copy_tx()

Message ID 1426477401-13429-1-git-send-email-mukawa@igel.co.jp (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Headers

Commit Message

Tetsuya Mukawa March 16, 2015, 3:43 a.m. UTC
  This patch fixes potential null pointer access of eth_null_copy_tx().

Reported-by: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa@igel.co.jp>
---
 lib/librte_pmd_null/rte_eth_null.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Comments

Thomas Monjalon March 17, 2015, 10 p.m. UTC | #1
> This patch fixes potential null pointer access of eth_null_copy_tx().
> 
> Reported-by: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa@igel.co.jp>

Applied, thanks
  

Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_null/rte_eth_null.c b/lib/librte_pmd_null/rte_eth_null.c
index 86307eb..8a20c9d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pmd_null/rte_eth_null.c
+++ b/lib/librte_pmd_null/rte_eth_null.c
@@ -160,11 +160,12 @@  eth_null_copy_tx(void *q, struct rte_mbuf **bufs, uint16_t nb_bufs)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct null_queue *h = q;
-	unsigned packet_size = h->internals->packet_size;
+	unsigned packet_size;
 
 	if ((q == NULL) || (bufs == NULL))
 		return 0;
 
+	packet_size = h->internals->packet_size;
 	for (i = 0; i < nb_bufs; i++) {
 		rte_memcpy(h->dummy_packet, rte_pktmbuf_mtod(bufs[i], void *),
 					packet_size);