> From: dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anatoly Burakov > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 11:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; Burakov, Anatoly <[email protected]> > 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: [email protected] > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
