From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: ciara.loftus@intel.com, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net/iavf: check for NULL pointer before dereference
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:59:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260710125940.1572978-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> (raw)
Static analysis with Coverity flags a possible NULL pointer dereference
of "hdr1" when handling IPv4 or IPv6 fragements in
iavf_fdir_parse_pattern. This is likely a false positive, since the
flow pattern protocol sequences are checked before this function is
called, so all paths leading to a hdr1 dereference start with an
ethernet protocol, which sets hdr1 to a non-NULL value.
However, this is a rather brittle situation, so to prevent any future
issues if a new set of allowed protocols is added with IP but no
Ethernet matching patterns, add explicit NULL checks for hdr1 before
it's used each time.
Coverity Id: 503768
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_fdir.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_fdir.c b/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_fdir.c
index 8940132dff..ea620863ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_fdir.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_fdir.c
@@ -806,6 +806,14 @@ iavf_fdir_parse_pattern(__rte_unused struct iavf_adapter *ad,
* ethertype, if the spec and mask is valid,
* set ethertype into input set.
*/
+ /* ETH should be present via pattern pre-validation. */
+ if (hdr1 == NULL) {
+ rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
+ RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ITEM,
+ item,
+ "Missing ETH header before IPv4 fragment.");
+ return -rte_errno;
+ }
input_set |= IAVF_INSET_ETHERTYPE;
VIRTCHNL_ADD_PROTO_HDR_FIELD_BIT(hdr1, ETH,
ETHERTYPE);
@@ -911,6 +919,14 @@ iavf_fdir_parse_pattern(__rte_unused struct iavf_adapter *ad,
* ethertype, if the spec and mask is valid,
* set ethertype into input set.
*/
+ /* ETH should be present via pattern pre-validation. */
+ if (hdr1 == NULL) {
+ rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
+ RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ITEM,
+ item,
+ "Missing ETH header before IPv6 fragment.");
+ return -rte_errno;
+ }
input_set |= IAVF_INSET_ETHERTYPE;
VIRTCHNL_ADD_PROTO_HDR_FIELD_BIT(hdr1, ETH,
ETHERTYPE);
--
2.53.0
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2026-07-10 12:59 Bruce Richardson [this message]
2026-07-10 13:19 ` [PATCH] net/iavf: check for NULL pointer before dereference Loftus, Ciara
2026-07-10 14:16 ` Bruce Richardson
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