A crash occurs in the examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread when it calls into rte_timer_manage() from the LThread library it utilizes. This happens because the application omitted a call to rte_timer_subsystem_init(), which leaves a pointer set to null in the timer library. This pointer is dereferenced in a check for validity of a timer data object, resulting in the segfault. This series fixes the validity check in the timer library, and adds the missing call to rte_timer_subsystem_init in the application.
Erik Gabriel Carrillo (2): timer: fix null pointer dereference examples/performance-thread: init timer subsystem examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/main.c | 5 +++++ lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.6.4
