Assign 'left' variable only after null check on 'size' as function returns if 'size' is null.
Coverity issue: 374381 Fixes: 169a9fed1f4 ("app/testpmd: fix hex string parser support for flow API") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Cc: wei.zh...@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sean Morrissey <sean.morris...@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> --- app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c b/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c index 5c2bba48ad..bbaf18d76e 100644 --- a/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c +++ b/app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c @@ -7702,8 +7702,8 @@ parse_string(struct context *ctx, const struct token *token, static int parse_hex_string(const char *src, uint8_t *dst, uint32_t *size) { - uint32_t left = *size; const uint8_t *head = dst; + uint32_t left; /* Check input parameters */ if ((src == NULL) || @@ -7712,6 +7712,8 @@ parse_hex_string(const char *src, uint8_t *dst, uint32_t *size) (*size == 0)) return -1; + left = *size; + /* Convert chars to bytes */ while (left) { char tmp[3], *end = tmp; -- 2.25.1