From: Shiqi Liu <835703...@qq.com> As the possible failure of the malloc(), the not_checked and checked could be NULL pointer. Therefore, it should be better to check it in order to avoid the dereference of the NULL pointer.
Fixes: fa8054c8c88 ("lib/node: add ethdev control") Signed-off-by: Shiqi Liu <835703...@qq.com> --- lib/node/ethdev_ctrl.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/node/ethdev_ctrl.c b/lib/node/ethdev_ctrl.c index 5294607619..eef0785c21 100644 --- a/lib/node/ethdev_ctrl.c +++ b/lib/node/ethdev_ctrl.c @@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ rte_node_eth_config(struct rte_node_ethdev_config *conf, uint16_t nb_confs, /* Add it to list of ethdev rx nodes for lookup */ elem = malloc(sizeof(ethdev_rx_node_elem_t)); + if (elem == NULL) { + return -ENOMEM; + } memset(elem, 0, sizeof(ethdev_rx_node_elem_t)); elem->ctx.port_id = port_id; elem->ctx.queue_id = j; -- 2.35.1.windows.2