The return value of rte_mempool_default_cache should be checked as it can be NULL.
Fixes: 9ab9514c150e ("net/iavf: enable AVX512 for Tx") Reported-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo...@intel.com> --- drivers/net/iavf/iavf_rxtx_vec_avx512.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_rxtx_vec_avx512.c b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_rxtx_vec_avx512.c index 8680734..584d12e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_rxtx_vec_avx512.c +++ b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_rxtx_vec_avx512.c @@ -1424,7 +1424,12 @@ struct rte_mempool *mp = txep[0].mbuf->pool; struct rte_mempool_cache *cache = rte_mempool_default_cache(mp, rte_lcore_id()); - void **cache_objs = &cache->objs[cache->len]; + void **cache_objs; + + if (!cache || cache->len == 0) + goto normal; + + cache_objs = &cache->objs[cache->len]; if (n > RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE) { rte_mempool_ops_enqueue_bulk(mp, (void *)txep, n); @@ -1462,6 +1467,7 @@ goto done; } +normal: m = rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg(txep[0].mbuf); if (likely(m)) { free[0] = m; -- 1.9.3