On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:39:31 -0500
Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carri...@intel.com> wrote:
> If the timer subsystem is not initialized before rte_timer_manage (for
> example) is invoked, a pointer to a shared hugepage memory region will
> still be null and dereferenced when it is checked for validity; handle
> this case.
>
> Fixes: c0749f7096c7 ("timer: allow management in shared memory")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carri...@intel.com>
I have mixed feelings about this patch.
Any calls to rte_timer before rte_timer_subsystem_init is not a
valid usage. Better to kill the application.
