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[2/2] net/mlx5: fix miss null check in ETH devargs parsing

Message ID 20221024123335.3163331-3-michaelba@nvidia.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Raslan Darawsheh
Headers
Series mlx5: fix miss NULL check in devargs parsing |

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Commit Message

Michael Baum Oct. 24, 2022, 12:33 p.m. UTC 
The "mlx5_os_parse_eth_devargs()" function parses the ETH devargs into a
specific structure called "eth_da".
It gets structure called "devargs" as a member of EAL device containing
the relevant information.

When "devargs" structure is invalid, the function avoids parsing it.
However, when it valid but its field "args" is invalid, the function
tries to parse it and dereference to NULL pointer.

This patch adds check to avoid this NULL dereferencing.

Fixes: 919488fbfa71 ("net/mlx5: support Sub-Function")
Cc: xuemingl@nvidia.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Michael Baum <michaelba@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
index ab7ffa0931..2b6741396d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
@@ -2411,7 +2411,7 @@  mlx5_os_parse_eth_devargs(struct rte_device *dev,
 			dev->devargs->cls_str);
 		return -rte_errno;
 	}
-	if (eth_da->type == RTE_ETH_REPRESENTOR_NONE) {
+	if (eth_da->type == RTE_ETH_REPRESENTOR_NONE && dev->devargs->args) {
 		/* Parse legacy device argument */
 		ret = rte_eth_devargs_parse(dev->devargs->args, eth_da);
 		if (ret) {