From: Or Ami <o...@mellanox.com>
RSS configuration should not be freed when priv is NULL.
Fixes: 2f97422e7759 ("mlx5: support RSS hash update and get")
Signed-off-by: Or Ami <ora at mellanox.com>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst | 4 ++++
drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
index 4d2f76c..09afff9 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ Drivers
* **vmxnet3: add TSO support.**
+* **mlx5: Fixed possible crash during initialization.**
+
+ A crash could occur when failing to allocate private device context.
+
Libraries
~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
index 575420e..41dcbbf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
@@ -497,8 +497,10 @@ mlx5_pci_devinit(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv, struct
rte_pci_device *pci_dev)
continue;
port_error:
- rte_free(priv->rss_conf);
- rte_free(priv);
+ if (priv) {
+ rte_free(priv->rss_conf);
+ rte_free(priv);
+ }
if (pd)
claim_zero(ibv_dealloc_pd(pd));
if (ctx)
--
2.1.4
