Thanks Haiyue,
I will implement a v2, following your suggestions.
/Conor.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.w...@intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday 20 October 2020 09:34
> To: Walsh, Conor <conor.wa...@intel.com>; Guo, Jia <jia....@intel.com>;
> Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>; Awal, Mohammad Abdul
> <mohammad.abdul.a...@intel.com>; Doherty, Declan
> <declan.dohe...@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] net/ixgbe: fix unchecked return value
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Walsh, Conor <conor.wa...@intel.com>
> > Sent: Monday, October 19, 2020 20:26
> > To: Guo, Jia <jia....@intel.com>; Wang, Haiyue
> <haiyue.w...@intel.com>; Yigit, Ferruh
> > <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>; Awal, Mohammad Abdul
> <mohammad.abdul.a...@intel.com>; Doherty, Declan
> > <declan.dohe...@intel.com>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Walsh, Conor <conor.wa...@intel.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] net/ixgbe: fix unchecked return value
> >
> > The return value of rte_eth_switch_domain_alloc() was not being checked
> > within ixgbe_pf_host_init() which caused a coverity issue. If the call
> > fails a warning is logged using PMD_INIT_LOG() and *vfinfo is free'd.
> > ixgbe_pf_host_init() now has a return value which is checked in
> > eth_ixgbe_dev_init()
> >
> > Coverity issue: 362795
> > Fixes: cf80ba6e2038 ("net/ixgbe: add support for representor ports")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Conor Walsh <conor.wa...@intel.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 6 ++++--
> > drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h | 2 +-
> > drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_pf.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
> > 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> > index 14a254ab74..49ff523ea8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> > @@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ eth_ixgbe_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev
> *eth_dev, void *init_params __rte_unused)
> > IXGBE_DEV_PRIVATE_TO_BW_CONF(eth_dev->data-
> >dev_private);
> > uint32_t ctrl_ext;
> > uint16_t csum;
> > - int diag, i;
> > + int diag, i, ret;
> >
> > PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE();
> >
> > @@ -1256,7 +1256,9 @@ eth_ixgbe_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev
> *eth_dev, void *init_params __rte_unused)
> > memset(hwstrip, 0, sizeof(*hwstrip));
> >
> > /* initialize PF if max_vfs not zero */
> > - ixgbe_pf_host_init(eth_dev);
> > + ret = ixgbe_pf_host_init(eth_dev);
> > + if (ret)
> > + return ret;
> >
>
> Seems that just return is not enough, the eth_dev->data->mac_addrs and
> eth_dev->data->hash_mac_addrs
> also needs to be freed, please refer to ' ice_dev_init':
>
> static int
> ice_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>
> rte_free(dev->data->mac_addrs);
> dev->data->mac_addrs = NULL;
>
>
> > --
> > 2.25.1
