To get the amount of memory needed for stats, we call the xstats_get_names function with a NULL parameter, which can return -1 on error. This negative value was not previously handled correctly, so we adjust things to quit the stats printing routine if this basic call fails.
Coverity issue: 350346 Fixes: 632bcd9b5d4f ("examples/ioat: print statistics") Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- examples/ioat/ioatfwd.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/examples/ioat/ioatfwd.c b/examples/ioat/ioatfwd.c index 9fc033bc3..a0cc5c496 100644 --- a/examples/ioat/ioatfwd.c +++ b/examples/ioat/ioatfwd.c @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ print_stats(char *prgname) unsigned int *ids_xstats, nb_xstats; char status_string[120]; /* to print at the top of the output */ int status_strlen; - + int ret; const char clr[] = { 27, '[', '2', 'J', '\0' }; const char topLeft[] = { 27, '[', '1', ';', '1', 'H', '\0' }; @@ -197,8 +197,11 @@ print_stats(char *prgname) "Ring Size = %d\n", ring_size); /* Allocate memory for xstats names and values */ - nb_xstats = rte_rawdev_xstats_names_get( + ret = rte_rawdev_xstats_names_get( cfg.ports[0].ioat_ids[0], NULL, 0); + if (ret < 0) + return; + nb_xstats = (unsigned int)ret; names_xstats = malloc(sizeof(*names_xstats) * nb_xstats); if (names_xstats == NULL) { -- 2.21.0