> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Anatoly Burakov > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 11:16 AM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Cc: tho...@monjalon.net; Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] malloc: fix potential dereferencing of NULL > pointer > > Previous code checked for both first/last elements being NULL, > but if they weren't, the expectation was that they're both > non-NULL, which will be the case under normal conditions, but > may not be the case due to heap structure corruption. > > Coverity issue: 272566 > > Fixes: bb372060dad4 ("malloc: make heap a doubly-linked list") > Cc: anatoly.bura...@intel.com > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com>
Had to do a double-take there - that's a novel way of checking pointers - but it actually makes sense here :) Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haa...@intel.com>
