This patches fixes a null pointer derefencing that happens when the device string passed to the iterator is NULL. This situation can happen when iterating on a class type. For example:
RTE_DEV_FOREACH(dev, "class=eth", &dev_iter) { ... } Fixes: e79df833d3f6 ("bus/dpaa: support hotplug ops") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Cc: shreyansh.j...@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coque...@redhat.com> --- drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c b/drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c index d53fe6083a..216f38acd4 100644 --- a/drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c +++ b/drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c @@ -703,6 +703,11 @@ dpaa_bus_dev_iterate(const void *start, const char *str, struct rte_dpaa_device *dev; char *dup, *dev_name = NULL; + if (str == NULL) { + DPAA_BUS_DEBUG("No device string\n"); + return NULL; + } + /* Expectation is that device would be name=device_name */ if (strncmp(str, "name=", 5) != 0) { DPAA_BUS_DEBUG("Invalid device string (%s)\n", str); -- 2.26.2