On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:39:31 -0500 Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carri...@intel.com> wrote:
> If the timer subsystem is not initialized before rte_timer_manage (for > example) is invoked, a pointer to a shared hugepage memory region will > still be null and dereferenced when it is checked for validity; handle > this case. > > Fixes: c0749f7096c7 ("timer: allow management in shared memory") > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org > > Signed-off-by: Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carri...@intel.com> I have mixed feelings about this patch. Any calls to rte_timer before rte_timer_subsystem_init is not a valid usage. Better to kill the application.