The rte_flow_error needs to be set when the age pool initialization has a failure. Or else the application will crash due to the access of the invalid "message" field.
Fixes: 04a4de756e14 ("net/mlx5: support flow age action with HWS") Cc: michae...@nvidia.com Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bi...@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Ori Kam <or...@nvidia.com> --- v2: add CC stable --- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c index 4163fe23e6..20941b4fc7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c @@ -7913,8 +7913,11 @@ flow_hw_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, goto err; } ret = mlx5_hws_age_pool_init(dev, port_attr, nb_queue); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret < 0) { + rte_flow_error_set(error, -ret, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED, + NULL, "Failed to init age pool."); goto err; + } } ret = flow_hw_create_vlan(dev); if (ret) -- 2.34.1