[PATCH 2/2] net: octeontx2: NULL check before dereference

Andrew Goodbody andrew.goodbody at linaro.org
Tue Aug 5 16:53:35 CEST 2025


In rvu_af_init if the code fails to allocate memory for nix_af it will
take the error path with nix_af == NULL which will dereference nix_af.
Add the appropriate NULL check.

This issue was found by Smatch.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Goodbody <andrew.goodbody at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/net/octeontx2/rvu_af.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/octeontx2/rvu_af.c b/drivers/net/octeontx2/rvu_af.c
index 0d3a9ffe9ee..7bdfbc52e3b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/octeontx2/rvu_af.c
+++ b/drivers/net/octeontx2/rvu_af.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ struct nix_af *rvu_af_init(struct rvu_af *rvu_af)
 	return nix_af;
 
 error:
-	if (nix_af->npa_af) {
+	if (nix_af && nix_af->npa_af) {
 		free(nix_af->npa_af);
 		memset(nix_af, 0, sizeof(*nix_af));
 	}

-- 
2.39.5



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