> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yu, DapengX <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 9:15 AM
> To: Singh, Jasvinder <[email protected]>; Dumitrescu, Cristian
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; Yu, DapengX <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: [PATCH] net/softnic: fix null pointer dereference
>
> From: Dapeng Yu <[email protected]>
>
> When there is no "firmware" in arguments, the "firmware" pointer is null,
> and will be dereferenced by rte_strscpy().
>
> This patch moves the code block which copies character string from
> "firmware" to "p->firmware" into the "if" statements where "firmware"
> argument exists and it is duplicated successfully.
>
> Coverity issue: 372136
> Fixes: d8f852f5f369 ("net/softnic: fix memory leak in arguments parsing")
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> Signed-off-by: Dapeng Yu <[email protected]>
> ---
Acked-by: Jasvinder Singh <[email protected]>
